Berlin Jerusalem

1989

Hebrew

Directed by: Amos Gitai

(85 mins) This moving drama of the birth of Israel focuses on two women - Else Lasker-Schuler, a German poet, and Tania Shohat, a Russian revolutionary. They meet first in Berlin, where utopian ideals and fear of the Nazis force their escape to Palestine. Re-united in Jerusalem, they confront a harsh reality in the city idealized in their dreams.

In German, Hebrew, and Arabic with English subtitles.