Event 58

Film Screening: The Human Resource Manager (Based on the novel by Abraham B. Jehoshua)

Israeli Film Series

Venue: La Cárcel – Filmoteca de Segovia

Directed by Eran Riklis and Noah Stollman, 2009. Duration: 103 minutes.
The Human Resources Manager at the largest bakery in Jerusalem is beset with problems. He has separated from his wife, has infrequent contact with his daughter and is stuck in a job he hates. When a foreign female employee at the bakery dies in a suicide bombing, a local paper runs a story indicting the bakery for inhumane behaviour and indifference. It seems no one in the bakery realised the woman wasn’t there. 

Israeli original version with Spanish subtitles

 

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