Berlin-Jerusalem

Berlin-Jerusalem

89 mins | Drama | Feb. 3, 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.

Berlin-Jerusalem

89 mins | Drama | Feb. 3, 1989

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.
IMDb rating 6.1
Producers Channel Four Films, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée, RAI, Hubert Bals Fund, La Sept Cinéma, Transfax Film Productions, Agav Films, Nederlandse Omroepstichting (NOS)
Original title Berlin-Yerushalaim
Directors Marc Petit Jean, Emanuel Amrami, Amos Gitai
Writers Gudie Lawaetz, Amos Gitai

Cast

Lisa Kreuzer

as Else

Rivka Neuman

as Tania

Markus Stockhausen

as Ludwig

Benjamin Levi

as Paul

Vernon Dobtcheff

as Editor

Bernard Eisenschitz

as Man in Berlin cafe

Raoul Guylad

as Dr. Weintraub

Juliano Mer-Khamis

as Menahme (as Juliano Mer)