Film: The Human Resources Manager

The Human Resources Manager (Mark Ivanir) of Jerusalem’s largest bakery is having a hard time. He is separated from his wife, distanced from his daughter, and stuck in a job he hates. When one of his employees, a foreign worker, is killed, the bakery is accused of indifference, and so the manager is sent to the victim’s hometown in Romania to make amends. Far from home, on a mission to honor a woman he didn’t even know but has somehow grown to admire, the manager fights to regain his company’s reputation and his own humanity. Eran Riklis directed, from screenwriter Noah Stollman’s adaptation of a novel by Abraham B. Jehoshua. Also, writer/director Andras Salamon’s Hungarian production, Tell Your Children (2007-5 min.). Both films are subtitled.