Manpower 2014
7/10 by 6 users
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.
- Released: 2014-02-13
- Runtime: 88 minutes
- Genre: Drama
- Stars: Shmulik Calderone, Yossi Marshek, Pampas Shimon Udi, Sun Intusap, Liat Goren
- Director: Noam Kaplan, Noam Kaplan
