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2009 Comedy

CO-PRODUCTION

A Matter of Size

Synopsis

Four overweight friends from the Israeli city of Ramle are fed up of dieting and the dieting club they belong to.

When Herzl (155 kilos), the main protagonist, loses his job as a cook and starts working as a dishwasher in a Japanese restaurant in Ramle he discovers the world of Sumo where large people such as himself are honoured and appreciated.

Through Kitano (60 kilos), the restaurant owner, a former Sumo coach in Japan (who is supposedly hiding from the Yakuza in Israel), he falls in love with a sport involving "two fatsos in diapers and girly hairdos". Herzl wants Kitano to be their coach but Kitano is reluctant - they first have to earn their spurs.

"A MATTER OF SIZE" is a comedy about a ‘coming out’ of a different kind - overweight people learning to accept themselves.

Cast

Itzik Cohen, Dvir Bandak, Alon Dahan, Shmuli Cohen

Crew

Writer Sharon Maymon and Danny Cohen Solal
Director Sharon Maymon and Erez Tadmor
Producer Chilik Michaeli, Avraham Pirchi & Tami Leon (United Channels Movies), Misha Shagrir (Tapuz Communications)
Co-Producer Oliver Simon & Daniel Baur (K5 Film), Antoine de Clermont-Tonnère (Mact Productions)
Distribution Océan Films (France)

Project-Info

Genre Comedy
Length 92'
Format 35mm / color
Year o. P. 2009
Language Hebrew, Japanese