Berlin-Jerusalem

Overview

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

February 3, 1989

Original language

Hebrew

Spoken languages

Hebrew, French, English, German

Countries

France, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, United Kingdom

Production

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

Cast

Rivka Neuman,Bernard Eisenschitz,Markus Stockhausen,Raoul Guylad,Juliano Mer-Khamis,Vernon Dobtcheff,Lisa Kreuzer,Benjamin Levi

Director

Amos Gitai

Writer

Amos Gitai,Gudie Lawaetz

Producer

Marek Rozenbaum,Amos Gitai

Cinematography

Nurith Aviv,Henri Alekan

Music

Simon Stockhausen,Markus Stockhausen

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

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