Quick Info
IMDb
Rating
4.7/10
Release1989
Runtime1h 29m
StatusReleased
BudgetN/A
RevenueN/A
Production
Transfax Film Productions
AGAV Films
Hubert Bals Fund
Nederlandse Omroepstichting (NOS)
CNC
RAI
La Sept Cinéma
Film4 Productions
Movie
Berlin-Jerusalem
1989
1h 29m
4.7
Drama
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.



















