Berlin-Jerusalem

Berlin-Jerusalem (1989)

Drama

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.

Director: Amos Gitai

Casts

	Lisa Kreuzer as Else
	Rivka Neuman as Tania
	Markus Stockhausen as Ludwig
	Benjamin Levi as Paul
	Vernon Dobtcheff as Editor
	Bernard Eisenschitz as Man in Berlin cafe
	Raoul Guylad as Dr. Weintraub
	Juliano Mer-Khamis as Menahme (as Juliano Mer)

Crew