Bread

影视简介：This is the first of 5 excellent films made by Ram Loevy for television.This one's a superb realistic drama that felt like a punch in the belly when it was broadcast, shedding light on a far, forgotten town populated by jews who emigrated from Arab countries.It's similar in tone and style to some of Ken Loach's better films, so it comes highly recommended. 　　The film tells the story of a Job-like character, Shlomo Elmaliach , who loses his job at his town's local bakery when it is forced to close. Rather than join the other unemployed protesters, Elmaliach locks himself in his home and launches a very personal hunger strike. At first people come to visit him at home, and there's even a rumor that television reporters might show up Gradually, even Elmaliach's friends abandon him, and he ends up dragging his family down with him. A son seeks radical solutions to poverty, a daughter who escaped to Tel Aviv to study returns home and takes a job on a production line,and Elmaliach's wife takes a job as a seamstress. At the end of the film, the factory is reopened as a result of all the protests, but by then it is too late for Shlomo Elmaliach.