Berlin-Jerusalem
Berlin-Jerusalem

Berlin-Jerusalem

ברלין ירושלים

Release date : 1989-02-03

Production country :

France,

Israel,

Italy,

Netherlands,

United Kingdom

Production company :

Transfax Film Productions,

AGAV Films,

Hubert Bals Fund,

Nederlandse Omroepstichting (NOS),

CNC,

RAI,

La Sept Cinéma,

Film4 Productions

Status : Released

Durasi : 89 Min.

Popularity : 1.608

5.2

Total Vote : 6

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.