Berlin-Jerusalem

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.

Country:

France,

Israel,

Italy,

Netherlands,

United Kingdom

Genre:

Drama

Duration:

89 minutes

Year:

1989

Director:

Amos Gitai

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Company:

Transfax Film Productions,

AGAV Films,

Hubert Bals Fund,

Nederlandse Omroepstichting (NOS),

CNC,

RAI,

La Sept Cinéma,

Film4 Productions

Cast:

Else

Tania

Ludwig

Paul

Editor

Crew:

Director

Writer

Writer

Producer

Producer