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The Matchmaker

Menemsha Films | Release Date: August 17, 2012

Summary: Arik, a teenage boy growing up in Haifa in 1968, gets a job working for Yankele Bride, a matchmaker. Yankele, a mysterious Holocaust survivor, has an office in back of a movie theater that shows only love stories, run by a family of seven Romanian dwarves in the seedy area by the port. Yankele introduces Arik to a new world, built on the ruins of an old one. As Arik begins to learn the mysteries of the human heart through his work with Yankele, he falls in love with Tamara, his friend Beni's cousin. Tamara has just returned from America and is full of talk of women's rights, free love and rock and roll. The disparate parts of Arik's life collide in unexpected, often funny and very moving ways as he lives through a summer that changes him forever. Avi Nesher's latest film mixes comedy with drama as it tells a coming-of-age story unlike any you've ever seen before. (Menemsha Films)

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Runtime:	112 min
Rating:	Not Rated
Official Site:	http://www.menemshafilms.com/the-matchmaker-once-i-was.html
Production:	Metro Communications
Genres:	Drama
Country:	Israel
Language:	Hebrew

Director	Credit
Avi Nesher	Director

Writer	Credit
Amir Gutfreund	Writer
Avi Nesher	Writer

Cast	Credit
Adir Miller	Yankele Bride
Bat-El Papura	Sylvia
Dov Navon	Yozi Burstein
Dror Keren	Meir The Librarian
Eli Yatzpan	Uncle Nadgi
Eyal Shehter	Arik Burstein - Adult
Kobi Faraj	Moshe Abadi
Maya Dagan	Clara Epstein
Neta Porat	Tamara
Shira Alfandari	The Rabbi's Wife
Tom Gal	Benny Abadi
Tuval Shafir	Arik Burstein
Ya'ackov Bodo	Adv. Segalson
Yael Levental	Tikva Abadi
Yarden Bar-Kochba	Nili Burstein

Producer	Credit
Avi Nesher	Executive Producer
Avraham Pirchi	Co-Producer
Chilik Michaeli	Executive Producer
David Silber	Executive Producer
Ishay Mor	Executive Producer
Moshe Edery	Co-Producer
Natan Caspi	Co-Producer
Tami Leon	Co-Producer