Berlin-Jerusalem (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 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.
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| Filmmakers | Role |
|---|---|
| Amos Gitai | Director |
| Amos Gitai | Writer |
| Gudie Lawaetz | Writer |
| Amos Gitai | Producer |
| Marek Rozenbaum | Producer |
| Markus Stockhausen | Composer |
| Simon Stockhausen | Composer |
| Henri Alekan | Cinematographer |
| Nurith Aviv | Cinematographer |
| Luc Barnier | Editor |
| Oren Medics | Editor |
| Marco Melani | Editor |
| Cast | Role |
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| Lisa Kreuzer | |
| Rivka Neuman | |
| Markus Stockhausen | |
| Benjamin Levi |
