The Matchmaker (Once I Was – ×¤×¢× ×”×™×™×ª×™)
German title: Ein Sommer in Haifa
Francaise title: Autrefois j’étais
Spain title: Uniendo corazones
Russian title: Сват
Original title: Once I Was – ×¤×¢× ×”×™×™×ª×™
Francaise title: Autrefois j’étais
Spain title: Uniendo corazones
Russian title: Сват
Original title: Once I Was – ×¤×¢× ×”×™×™×ª×™
Alternative titles:
Paam Hayiti
Paam Hayiti
Tragicomedy – Israel
Production year: 2009
Movie length: 118 minutes
Production year: 2009
Movie length: 118 minutes
Director: Avi Nesher
Writer: Avi Nesher, Amir Gutfreund
Cinematograph: Michel Abramowicz
Music: Philippe Sarde
Writer: Avi Nesher, Amir Gutfreund
Cinematograph: Michel Abramowicz
Music: Philippe Sarde
Movie description:
During the summer of 1968 a teenage boy goes to work for a matchmaker who has survived the Holocaust – both their lives are forever altered ...
Set in 1968, an Israeli born teenage boy gets a summer job with a Holocaust survivor who makes ends meet by brokering marriages and smuggled goods. The matchmaker’s office is located in the back of a rundown movie theatre, run by seven Romanian dwarfs (true story!!!) who were saved from the gas chambers by the infamous Doctor Mengele. The dwarfs run nothing but romantic Indian movies in the theatre, and may or may not be aware of the illegal goings on in the back.
Throughout the summer, the mysterious matchmaker takes the boy on a dangerous coming of age ride into the deepest and darkest urban underbelly of Six Day War Haifa – where love assumes surprising shapes and forms and history is transformed into mythology.
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.
Set in 1968, an Israeli born teenage boy gets a summer job with a Holocaust survivor who makes ends meet by brokering marriages and smuggled goods. The matchmaker’s office is located in the back of a rundown movie theatre, run by seven Romanian dwarfs (true story!!!) who were saved from the gas chambers by the infamous Doctor Mengele. The dwarfs run nothing but romantic Indian movies in the theatre, and may or may not be aware of the illegal goings on in the back.
Throughout the summer, the mysterious matchmaker takes the boy on a dangerous coming of age ride into the deepest and darkest urban underbelly of Six Day War Haifa – where love assumes surprising shapes and forms and history is transformed into mythology.
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.
Boy Actors
Tuval Shafir
(Arik Burstein, 16 years old)
(Arik Burstein, 16 years old)
Birthday: 21.01.1993
Age of the actor:
approximately 16 years old
Age of the actor:
approximately 16 years old
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