Nekama Yehudit (1997)

Genres - Thriller  |   Sub-Genres - Comedy Thriller  |   Run Time - 80 min.  |   Countries - Israel, Russia  |   MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Nathan Southern

Aleksandr Shabatayev's 1997 Hebrew-language comic thriller Nekama Yehudit (AKA Jewish Vendetta) concerns a jealous husband (Leonid Kanevsky) who - certain of his wife's infidelity - feigns a heart attack and uses it to extract a forced deathbed admission of guilt from the woman. She confesses that she indeed once slept with his best friend over three decades ago. Hell bent on revenge, he leaves his home in Israel undertakes a transcontinental journey across the Soviet continent to settle the score. The only problem is that his son and the Russian mafia stand in his way. Levana Finkelstein, Vsevolod Gavrilov and Oshik Levi co-star.

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husband-and-wife, jealousy, Mafia, revenge, son