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