The Matchmaker
Brief Synopsis
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Motl Shothen is a Matchmaker "from God". Everybody loves him in Zinkov, a Jewish bucolic town in Ukraine. But Motl's happy life with his wife and three kids is threatened when he goes to fight the Germans during World War II. When he is back fours years later he finds no wife, no children, no family
Cast & Crew
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Sergei Davidoff
Director
Sasha Israel Demidov
Rada Iskar
Ghennadie Gilke
Igor Slobodskoy
Irina Brazgovka
Film Details
Genre
Drama
Period
Romance
War
Release Date
2008
Location
Russia; United States
Synopsis
Motl Shothen is a Matchmaker "from God". Everybody loves him in Zinkov, a Jewish bucolic town in Ukraine. But Motl's happy life with his wife and three kids is threatened when he goes to fight the Germans during World War II. When he is back fours years later he finds no wife, no children, no family, no house left. Soon Motl comes to the devastating discovery that almost all the Jews from Zinkov were killed by the Germans. Among the few left Motl re-encounters a woman he had matched few years back, before the war.
Director
Sergei Davidoff
Director
Cast
Sasha Israel Demidov
Rada Iskar
Ghennadie Gilke
Igor Slobodskoy
Irina Brazgovka
Mikhail Kozakov
Maria Ploae
Margaretta Pintea
Aleksandr Pankratov-chyorny
Igor Karas
Anatol Durbale
Vladimir Goykhman
Crew
Olena Bondareva
Makeup
Christina Butucel
Editor
Christina Butucel
Line Producer
Iiri Chayka
Sound Department
Michai Danile
Unit Production Manager
Claudia Davidoff
Coproducer
Sergei Davidoff
Executive Producer
Vasile Goya
Music
Ilie Iovu
Production Designer
Anatoly Ivanov
Director Of Photography
Valeriu Jereghi
Screenplay
Nita Kibulescu
Editor
Elena Kushnir
Production Manager
Iurie Matei
Production Designer
Iurie Matei
Costume Designer
Alla Melnik
Makeup
Michai Oreshanu
Sound Department
Lidia Petrenco
Associate Producer
Yakov Tihman
Screenplay
Yakov Tihman
Producer
Film Details
Genre
Drama
Period
Romance
War
Release Date
2008
Location
Russia; United States
