Berlin-Jerusalem (1989)
- NR
- 09/13/1989 (CA)
- Drama
- 1h 29m
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.
Amos Gitai
Director, WriterGudie Lawaetz
WriterCast

Lisa Kreuzer
Else
Rivka Neuman
TaniaMarkus Stockhausen
LudwigBenjamin Levi
Paul
Vernon Dobtcheff
EditorBernard Eisenschitz
Man in Berlin cafe
Raoul Guylad
Dr. Weintraub