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