The read
A Balasaur Score of 69 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 6.8/10. It runs a compact 1h 28m. Streaming on Tubi.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
6 audience votes
Key crew
- Noam KaplanWriter
- Noam KaplanDirector
Cast
- Shmulik CalderoneCast
- Yossi MarshakCast
- Pampas Shimon UdiCast
- Sun IntusapCast
- Liat GorenCast
- Neta ShpigelmanCast
- Herzl TobeyCast