Berlin-Jerusalem
1989 · ★ 5.2 · Dir. Amos Gitai
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.
- Released
- 1989-02-03
- Runtime
- 89 min
- Language
- HE
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Lisa Kreuzer
Else
Rivka Neuman
Tania
Markus Stockhausen
Ludwig
Benjamin Levi
Paul
Vernon Dobtcheff
Editor
Bernard Eisenschitz
Man in Berlin cafe
Raoul Guylad
Dr. Weintraub
Juliano Mer-Khamis
Menahme (as Juliano Mer)
