Berlin-Jerusalem

Berlin-Jerusalem

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Status

Released

Release Date

Feb 3, 1989

Runtime

1h 29m

Genres

Drama

User Score

52%

Original Title

ברלין ירושלים

Production Companies

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

Director

Amos Gitai

Description

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.