Berlin-Jerusalem

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1989 · 89 min · Drama · TMDB 5.2/10

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.

Directed by Amos Gitai

Cast

• Lisa Kreuzer — Else
• Rivka Neuman — Tania
• Markus Stockhausen — Ludwig
• Benjamin Levi — Paul
• Vernon Dobtcheff — Editor