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.
Directing | Amos Gitai | Director |
Production | Marek Rozenbaum | Producer |
Camera | Nurith Aviv | Director of Photography |
Sound | Simon Stockhausen | Original Music Composer |
Sound | Markus Stockhausen | Original Music Composer |
Camera | Henri Alekan | Director of Photography |
Writing | Gudie Lawaetz | Writer |
Directing | Marc Petit Jean | Assistant Director |
Directing | Emanuel Amrami | Assistant Director |
Editing | Marco Melani | Editor |
Production | Amos Gitai | Producer |
Production | Laurent Truchot | Production Manager |
Writing | Amos Gitai | Writer |
Editing | Luc Barnier | Editor |
Editing | Oren Medics | Editor |