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Berlin-Jerusalem
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5.2
6 reviews
Drama
1h 29m
1989

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...

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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.

  • DirectorAmos Gitai
  • Release3 February 1989
  • GenreDrama
  • Duration1h 29m
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    5.2
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  • Productions

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

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