BERLIN JERUSALEM - DVD-AMOS GITAI: EXILE

Details

• Release Year: 1989
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: 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.
• Cast: Lisa Kreuzer, Rivka Neuman, Markus Stockhausen
• Director: Amos Gitai
• Runtime: 89 min
• Media Format: movie