Berlin-Jerusalem (movie)
ברלין ירושלים- User score: 5.2
- Production country: France, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, United Kingdom
- Producer: Amos Gitai
- Production companies: Transfax Film Productions, AGAV Films, Hubert Bals Fund, Nederlandse Omroepstichting (NOS), CNC, RAI, La Sept Cinéma, Film4 Productions
- Genre: Drama
- Release date: 2/3/1989
- Run time: 89 min.
Movie 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.
