Another nearly-ordinary winter day in the life of 64-year-old Doron, director of a municipal home for the aged: the rain is pouring, someone nabbed his reserved parking spot, and Bela Schorr, occupant of Room 212, passed away that morning.
Acting
Moshe Ivgy's face does three acts of tragedy.
Direction
Frankel finds epic scope in parking disputes.
Writing
Dialogue so natural you'll forget it's scripted.
Director
Boaz Frankel
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Frankel's background in documentary journalism explains the film's almost cruel observational distance — he refuses to dramatize what life already made banal.
The film belongs to a wave of Israeli 'social realism' cinema examining the fraying welfare state's human cost, alongside works by Eran Kolirin.
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