Fictitious Marriage
7.1
“A Dark Comedy about Life, Love and Lies”
Eldad is about to go abroad, but changes his mind at the last minute. Instead of going home to Jerusalem, he disguises himself and takes a cheap hotel room in Tel Aviv. There he meets the receptionist Judy who he makes believe he'll marry so she can go to American with him and get a working visa there. In another disguise he is mistaken for a deaf-mute Arab and joins a group of them both at their Israeli construction site and back in their village.
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Cast
10 people
Shlomo Bar-Aba
Eldad Illan
Known for
The Little Drummer Girl
Footnote
Irit Sheleg
Judy
Known for
Fill the Void
Michael Sharfstein
Also in
Beyond the Walls
Carlos
Haim Bouzaglo
Also in
Distortion
Bachelor Days Are Over
Eli Yatzpan
Bashir
Also in
Chain of Command
שקופים
Idit Teperson
Avigail
Known for
The Awakening of Motti Wolkenbruch
Footnote
Adib Jahschan
Also in
The Delta Force
Beyond the Walls
Adiv Shagen
Yossi Suissa
Ofra Weingarten
Also in
Everlasting Joy
Round Three
Haim Bouzaglo Director · Yossi Suissa Writer Tova Ascher Editor
Budget $25K · United States release November 15, 1989 · Produced in Israel
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Budget
$25,000
Production
Tom Productions
Production
Israel
Produced in
Languages
Original title
נישואין פיקטיביים
Original language
Hebrew
Spoken on screen
Arabic · English · Hebrew
Release dates
Israel · June 6, 1988
Theatrical
United States · November 15, 1989
Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival
Denmark
April 26, 1992 · Israeli Film Week
Philippines
January 28, 2004 · Israeli Film Festival
Russia
April 18, 1990 · Limited theatrical · Israel Film Week in Moscow
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