1971 · comedy · satire · classic
The Policeman
Directed by Ephraim Kishon1h 27m1971
Azulai is a policeman in Jaffa, whose incompetence is only matched by his soft-heartedness. His superiors want to send him to early retirement, but he would like to stay on the force, and the criminals of Jaffa don't want to see him leave either...
Our read: The Policeman (1971) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded comedy · satire · classic entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, gentle comedy / satire, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender.
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- funny
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