Berlin-Yerushalaim 1989

Synopsis:

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.

Directed by: Amos Gitai
Written by: Amos Gitai & Gudie Lawaetz
Release date: 1989-02-03
Runtime: 89 minutes
Cast:
Lisa Kreuzer
Lisa Kreuzer
Else 
Rivka Neuman
Rivka Neuman
Tania 
Markus Stockhausen
Markus Stockhausen
Ludwig 
Benjamin Levi
Benjamin Levi
Paul 
Vernon Dobtcheff
Vernon Dobtcheff
Editor 
Bernard Eisenschitz
Bernard Eisenschitz
Man in Berlin cafe