The Customer of the Off Season

The Customer of the Off Season
Directed by	Moshé Mizrahi
Written by	Moshé Mizrahi Rahel Fabian
Produced by	Alex Massis
Starring	Claude Rich
Cinematography	Étienne Szabo
Edited by	Dov Hoenig
Release date	1970 (1970)
Running time	90 minutes
Country	Israel
Language	Hebrew

The Customer of the Off Season (Hebrew: אורח בעונה מתה Ore'ach B'Onah Metah) is a 1970 Israeli drama film directed and co-written by Moshé Mizrahi. It was entered into the 20th Berlin International Film Festival.

Plot

The film follows a German officer (Hans Christian Blech) who was a concentration camp commander near the city of Lyon. After the war, he posed as a Jewish refugee and immigrated to Israel to avoid being tried for his crimes. In Israel, he falls in love with an Israeli woman of Yemeni-Jewish descent, and together they run a small hotel in Eilat. However, the shadow of his past follows him there, and after 20 years, when a French guest (Claude Rich) arrives at the hotel, the officer fears that this Frenchman was a prisoner in his camp and might recognize and expose him. Out of fear, he murders the stranger.

Cast

• Claude Rich as Customer
• Henya Sucar-Ziv as Wife
• Hans Christian Blech as Hotel Manager
• Amos Kenan
• Uzi Weinberg

External links

• The Customer of the Off Season at IMDb