Berlin-Jerusalem

02/03/1989

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1hr 29min

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Drama

STORY

Two interconnected stories in the 1930s, one set in Berlin, the other in Palestine: Mania Vilbouchevich Shohat (1880-1961), called Tania, a Russian Jew and revolutionary, goes from Minsk to Palestine to live on a collective. She promotes feminism and laments a shift in the men from self-defense to aggression. Her friend, Else Lasker-Schuler (1869 - 1945), expressionist poet and German Jew, is in Berlin, writing, caring for her son, watching Hitler's movement take power. She goes to Jerusalem and imagines a park for Arab and Jew. Her poems, voiced from within, capture her experience. The film meditates on the violence at the root of Israel's birth: of the Nazis and of the Zionists.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Lisa Kreuzer
  • Rivka Neuman
  • Markus Stockhausen
  • Benjamin Levi
  • Vernon Dobtcheff

    Directors

  • Amos Gitai
  • Marc Petit Jean
  • Emanuel Amrami

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Transfax Film Productions
  • AGAV Films
  • Hubert Bals Fund
  • Nederlandse Omroepstichting (NOS)
  • CNC
  • RAI
  • La Sept Cinéma
  • Film4 Productions

    Production Countries

  • France
  • Israel
  • Italy
  • Netherlands
  • United Kingdom

LANGUAGES

  • English
  • German
  • Hebrew
  • French