The Worst Company in the World
Ta nejhorší společnost na světě, Israel, 2009, 54 min, Digi Beta, DVD, Personal View, Portrait, Youth Documentary
Love and humor are plentiful, but success is scarce in a small Tel Aviv insurance agency where nothing runs as it should. Perennially on the verge of bankruptcy, the failing agency is run by three middle-aged, divorced, and not particularly successful men. They may be highly intelligent, well-educated, warm and good -humored, but they have no inkling about running a business. This documentary offers an amusing behind-the-scenes look at the operations of the firm over one fiscal year, as the manager’s son – also the film’s director – joins this motley crew in a last-ditch attempt to save his father’s collapsing business. A personal documentary that is also an endearing father-son journey.
Director:
Regev Contes
Screenplay:
Regev Contes, Arik Lahav-Leibovich
Producer:
Eilon Ratzkovsky
Executive producer:
Yossi Uzrad, Guy Jacoel, Noa Lifshitz
Director of photography:
Regev Contes
Editor:
Regev Contes
Languages:
Hebrew
Subtitles:
English
July August Productions
26 Nahmani Street
65794 Tel Aviv, Israel
Ruth Diskin Films Ltd.
P.O. Box 7153
91071 Jerusalem, Israel
Curator's Choice -
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, USA, 2010
Best Documentary Award -
EcoFilm International Festival, Rhodes, 2010
Student Jewry Award -
Kiev International Film Festival, Ukraine, 2010
Mayor of Tel-Aviv -Yaffo Award for a Young & Promising Filmmaker, DocAviv Festival 2009 -
DocAviv Festival 2009
Docudays Human Rights International Film Festival, Ukraine, 2010
Zagreb Dox International Film Festival, Croatia, 2010
Krakow Int'l Documentary Film Festival, Poland, 2010
Bratislava Int'l Film Festival, 2009