Manpower Overview
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.
Manpower Career and Cast Highlights
Key credits listed on this page include
Noam Kaplan, Shmulik Calderone, Yossi Marshak, Pampas Shimon Udi, Sun Intusap, Liat Goren, Neta Shpigelman, and Herzl Tobey.
