Sallah

Sallah (1964)

June 2nd, 19641h 50min

Comedy, Drama
68%

Overview

Sallah Shabati, the patriarch of a big family recently arrived to Israel from Yemen, tries to make money and get better housing, in a country that can barely provide for its own and is in the midst of absorbing hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees from Arab countries.


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