Once I Was

The 2010 Israeli drama film "The Matchmaker" (Hebrew: "Pä'em HaYithy") takes place in Haifa over the course of one month in the summer of 1968. A teenage boy, Arik (Tuval Shafir), forms a special bond with Yaakov Bride (Adir Miller), a scarred matchmaker and Holocaust survivor. Bride offers Arik a summer job, and he becomes friends with Clara (Maya Dagan), a Holocaust survivor who works with Bride, and also with Tamara (Neta Porat), Arik's first great love.