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, Writer

Gudie Lawaetz

Writer

Cast

Lisa Kreuzer's headshot

Lisa Kreuzer

Else
Rivka Neuman's headshot

Rivka Neuman

Tania
Markus Stockhausen's headshot

Markus Stockhausen

Ludwig
Benjamin Levi's headshot

Benjamin Levi

Paul
Vernon Dobtcheff's headshot

Vernon Dobtcheff

Editor
Bernard Eisenschitz's headshot

Bernard Eisenschitz

Man in Berlin cafe
Raoul Guylad's headshot

Raoul Guylad

Dr. Weintraub
Juliano Mer-Khamis's headshot

Juliano Mer-Khamis

Menahme (as Juliano Mer)

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