The Human Resources Manager (2010)

Original title

שליחותו של הממונה על משאבי אנוש

Directed by

Eran Riklis

Genre

drama film, comedy film

Country

Israel, Germany, France

Runtime

1h 43m

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 28 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A human resources manager for a bakery is sent to accompany the body of a dead former employee back to her home country. The trip forces him to confront the life of a woman he barely knew.

wryunderstatedpoignantslow-burnmelancholicoffbeatthoughtfulsubtle

What happens

The Human Resources Manager (Hebrew: שליחותו של הממונה על משאבי אנוש, translit. Shliḥuto shel Ha'Memuneh al Mash'abey Enosh) is a 2010 Israeli drama film directed by Eran Riklis. Its script was written by Noah Stollman, based on the 2006 novel A Woman in Jerusalem by A. B. Yehoshua. The film tells the story of a bakery's human-resources manager (unnamed, like most of the film's characters) who reluctantly travels to Eastern Europe to take the body of a deceased former employee, a recent immigrant to Israel, back to her family, in order to prevent a public-relations disaster for his company. The first half of the film is set in, and was filmed in, Jerusalem, while the second half was filmed in Romania, although the name of the country is never specified in the film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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