A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Release Date:
February 3, 1989
Original Title:
ברלין ירושלים
Genres:
Drama
Production Companies:
AGAV Films
CNC
Film4 Productions
Hubert Bals Fund
La Sept Cinéma
Nederlandse Omroepstichting (NOS)
RAI
Transfax Film Productions
Production Countries:
France | Israel | Italy | Netherlands | United Kingdom
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 89
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.
Assistant Director:
Emanuel Amrami
Marc Petit Jean
Director:
Amos Gitai
Director of Photography:
Nurith Aviv
Henri Alekan
Editor:
Luc Barnier
Marco Melani
Oren Medics
Original Music Composer:
Markus Stockhausen
Simon Stockhausen
Producer:
Marek Rozenbaum
Amos Gitai
Production Manager:
Laurent Truchot
Writer:
Amos Gitai
Gudie Lawaetz
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