Berlin-Jerusalem

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.

Lisa Kreuzer

Else

Rivka Neuman

Tania

Markus Stockhausen

Ludwig

Benjamin Levi

Paul

Vernon Dobtcheff

Editor

Bernard Eisenschitz

Man in Berlin cafe

Raoul Guylad

Dr. Weintraub

Juliano Mer-Khamis

Menahme (as Juliano Mer)

• Amos GitaiDirector · Writer · Producer
• Gudie LawaetzWriter
• Marek RozenbaumProducer
• Henri AlekanDirector of Photography
• Nurith AvivDirector of Photography
• Markus StockhausenOriginal Music Composer
• Simon StockhausenOriginal Music Composer
• Luc BarnierEditor
• Oren MedicsEditor
• Marco MelaniEditor

Release date

February 3, 1989

Status

Released

Original language

Hebrew

Runtime

1h 29m

Genres

Drama