Academy Awards, USA 1972
| Nominee Oscar | Best Foreign Language Film Israel. |
Cinema 5 Distributing
Directed by Ephraim Kishon
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(DVD, Sisu Home Entertainment)
A middle aged police officer in Tel Aviv is approaching retirement. Never promoted, he is mostly ineffectual on his job and is now being considered to let go. However, he does occasionally prove to be useful, with his knowledge of multiple languages defusing potentially violent situations. He befriends a prostitute during a raid, then falls in love with her, but can't bring himself to divorce his wife. When he befriends the leader of a criminal ring, they decide to try to help save his retirement by arranging for him to catch them in the act of stealing from a church. He is finally promoted, but then forced into retirement. Episodic, and dated, film carried almost entirely by the performance of Shaike Ophir.
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