Manpower

Manpower — Plot

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.

• Release date
• February 13, 2014
• Runtime
• 88 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Noam Kaplan

Manpower — Cast

S

Shmulik Calderone Yossi Marshak

P

Pampas Shimon Udi

S

Sun Intusap

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Liat Goren Neta Shpigelman Herzl Tobey