The Human Resources Manager

The Human Resources Manager
Film poster
Directed byEran Riklis
Written byA. B. Yehoshua (novel)
Noah Stollman (script)
StarringMark Ivanir
CinematographyRainer Klausmann
Edited byTova Asher
Release date
  • 10 August 2010 (2010-08-10)
Running time
103 minutes
CountryIsrael
LanguagesHebrew, Romanian, English

The Human Resources Manager (Hebrew: שליחותו של הממונה על משאבי אנוש, translit. Shliḥuto shel Ha'Memuneh al Mash'abey Enosh) is a 2010 Israeli drama film directed by Eran Riklis. Its script was written by Noah Stollman, based on the 2006 novel A Woman in Jerusalem by A. B. Yehoshua. The film tells the story of a bakery's human-resources manager (unnamed, like most of the film's characters) who reluctantly travels to Eastern Europe to bring the body of a deceased former employee, a recent immigrant to Israel, back to her family, in order to prevent a public-relations disaster for his company. The first half of the film is set in, and was filmed in, Jerusalem, while the second half was filmed in Romania, although the name of the country is never specified in the film.