The Human Resources Manager

The Human Resources Manager
The Human Resources Manager
	Film poster
Directed by	Eran Riklis
Written by	A. B. Yehoshua; Noah Stollman
Starring	Mark Ivanir
Cinematography	Rainer Klausmann
Edited by	Tova Asher
Release date	10 August 2010;
Running time	103 minutes
Country	Israel
Languages	Hebrew, 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. It was written by , based on the 2006 book 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.

The Human Resources Manager won five Ophir Awards, for Best Film, Director, Screenplay, Supporting Actress (Rozina Cambos) and Soundtrack.^[1] The film was also selected as the Israeli entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards,^[1] but it did not make the final shortlist.^[2]