Yossi Polak Movies

He has already been married twice before, and has lost his previous two wives in ways which are difficult to explain. Reluctant to marry again, Naftali Simantov finally agrees when a matchmaker hooks him up with Flora, who is shy and homely. He is not a mean man, and wants to have an heir to his mercantile business very much. Unfortunately, he has a disability in the lovemaking arena, and it is unlikely that he will ever produce one. Flora is too ignorant to understand this, but is not so unfeminine that she can ignore the blandishments of a salesman with a yen to bed her. When it becomes very obvious to everyone but Flora that she is pregnant, it becomes clear that Naftali feels he may be forced to become a widower again. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

Director Yehuda Ne'eman has put together a film about a former Israeli paratrooper in West Germany who leaves for home carrying $250,000 to help found a new Arab university. The glitch in his plans for delivering the gift comes when his Arab companions insist that the money has to be spent on guns -- and he refuses to give it to them. This puts him in jeopardy with both the Arab and the Israeli extremists and garners no support for his middle-of-the-road approach. As it happens, this drama was filmed during the summer of 1982 when Israel invaded Lebanon and bombed West Beirut. The actors and crew were not disinterested parties, and either because of the politics involved or for casting against type, the performances are unconvincing even though the subject itself is strong. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

Based on an autobiographical novel by Amos Kolek, the son of one of Jerusalem's more famous mayors (Teddy Kolek), this movie tells the story of an Israeli novelist with no visible means of support, who occupies the time he doesn't spend with his girlfriend, an American archaeologist, or with his best friend, a soldier, by writing a novel which he imagines no one will ever read. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi