The Human Resources Manager

Name: The Human Resources Manager
Genre: Drama
Released: March 4, 2011
Duration: 103 min
Rating: 62

2011

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"DIA" Productions GmbH & Co. KG | Release Date: March 4, 2011 | Unrated

Summary: The Human Resources Manager of Jerusalem’s largest bakery is in trouble. He’s separated from his wife, distanced from his daughter and stuck in a job he hates. When one of his female employees, a foreign worker, is killed in a suicide bombing and her body remains unclaimed, the bakery is accused of inhumanity and indifference. The
HumanThe Human Resources Manager of Jerusalem’s largest bakery is in trouble. He’s separated from his wife, distanced from his daughter and stuck in a job he hates. When one of his female employees, a foreign worker, is killed in a suicide bombing and her body remains unclaimed, the bakery is accused of inhumanity and indifference. The
Human Resources Manager is sent on a mission to make things right. He embarks on a complex journey, beginning in the mystical streets of Jerusalem and continuing in frozen Romania. The Manager finds himself leading an awkward convoy to the dead woman’s village including her rebellious son, a pesky journalist determined to ruin him, a quirky consul, an old veteran driver and a coffin. Far from home, on a mission to honour a woman he didn’t even know but has somehow grown to admire, the Human Resources Manager rediscovers his own humanity and his ability to truly care for human resources. (EZ Films)… Expand

Director: Eran Riklis

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Unrated

Runtime: 103 min

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Kenneth Turan

Mar 10, 2011

More than anything, this is an intelligent audience picture, a solid and engrossing piece of old-school filmmaking, both humane and character driven, in which the various protagonists learn something - not too much and not too easily - about the nature of their lives. Read full review

V.A. Musetto

Mar 4, 2011

An enjoyable mix of tragedy and comedy. Read full review

Boxoffice Magazine Pam Grady

Mar 5, 2011

With the stranger in a strange land motif, the movie plays a little bit like the 2007 Israeli dramedy "The Band's Visit" and Liev Shreiber's "Everything Is Illuminated" rolled into one. Read full review

David Fear

Mar 2, 2011

It's undeniably humanistic; resourceful and well managed, however, are a different story. Read full review

Jeannette Catsoulis

Mar 4, 2011

A disappointingly shallow story in which only the dead are named, and the living are reduced to stereotypes. Read full review

Walter Addiego

Mar 17, 2011

It serves up a broad humanistic lesson with absurdism and black comedy more sad than barbed. Read full review

Joe Williams

Apr 22, 2011

Because we don't know or care much about the characters, this Israeli film never fulfills its potential as either an absurdist comedy or a humane drama. Read full review

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