The Matchmaker

In the summer of 1968, Haifa teenager Arik learns about life, love and loyalty when he gets a job working as a detective for the mysterious Yankele Bride, a Holocaust survivor-turned-matchmaker who promises to help clients get "what you need, not what you want." Yankele works from a seedy office in the back of a movie theater run by Romanian dwarfs, also survivors, and 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, he falls for a girl who talks of free love, women's rights and rock 'n' roll. THE MATCHMAKER is a lovely and wise portrait from the director of TURN LEFT AT THE END OF THE WORLD and is inspired, in part, by When Eagles Fly by Amir Gutfreund, the Israeli author of Our Holocaust.

Official Selection – 2010 Toronto International Film Festival

Winner of 4 Israeli Academy Awards 2010, including Best Actor and Best Actress

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