Matter of Size
feature film, 2009.
DIRECTED BY: Sharon Maymon / Erez Tadmor
CAST:
Itzik Cohen (Herzl),
Dvir Benedek (Aharon),
Irit Kaplan (Zehava),
Alon Dahan (Gidi),
Levana Finkelstein (Mona)
SCRIPT:
Sharon Maymon,
Danny Cohen-Solal
PHOTOGRAPHY:
David Gurfinkel
Synopsis:
Herzl is an overweight cook who is unlucky in life. He is fired from a salad bar because of his poor looks and is even kicked out of a weight-loss program. However, it seems he will finally get a chance at a new job as a dishwasher in a Japanese restaurant. Its owner is Kitano, a former sumo trainer on the run from the yakuza. There, Herzl realizes that the sumo world honors and respects overweight people. He gets together a group of his friends and asks Kitano to train them.
color, 90 min