Manpower

Overview

An intelligent social issues drama, Manpower sketches a portrait of four men in crisis. Moving between scathing realism and subtle irony, the film raises questions of belonging and uprooting, exile and emigration, home and family. Meir Cohen is a decorated police officer yet he barely earns a living. His new assignment to deport African migrant workers teaches him that foreigners aren’t the only ones with no future in his country. Other plotlines intertwine with Meir’s story: an Israeli-Filipino boy fighting for recognition; a taxi driver whose children are migrating to a distant country; and a veteran migrant worker who’s forced to decide whether to leave or to hide until trouble passes.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

February 13, 2014

Original language

English

Spoken languages

Hebrew

Countries

France, Israel

Cast

Sun Intusap,Herzl Tobey,Shmulik Calderone,Liat Goren,Pampas Shimon Udi,Yossi Marshek,Neta Shpigelman

Director

Noam Kaplan

Writer

Noam Kaplan

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt3247816