Berlin-Jerusalem (1989)
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Release02/03/1989
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ProductionTransfax Film Productions, AGAV Films, Hubert Bals Fund, Nederlandse Omroepstichting (NOS), CNC, RAI, La Sept Cinéma, Film4 Productions
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Rotten tomato52%
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Original titleברלין ירושלים
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Original languagehe
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Overview
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.
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