Item Details
Berlin Jerusalem [videorecording]
produced by Agav Films ; written by Amos Gitai and Gudie Lawaetz ; directed by Amos Gitai.
- Format
- DVD; Video
- Summary
- 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.
- Director
- Amos Gitai
- Performer(s)
- Lisa Kreuzer, Rivka Neuman, members of the Pina Bausch Dance Company.
- Release Date
- 1989
- Run Time
- 85 min.
- Language
- German, Hebrew, Arabic, and other languages with English subtitles.
- Rating
- MPAA rating: Not rated.
- Notes
- Videodisc release of a 1989 motion picture.
- Special features: full chapterization; video interviews.
- Variant title
- Additional title on container and disc label:
- Amos Gitai: Exile
- Exile
- Awards note
- Venice Film Festival: Critics prize.
- Series
- Amos Gitai: Exile
- Gitai, Amos, 1950- Exile
- Series statement
- Amos Gitai: Exile
- Gitai, Amos, 1950- Exile.
- ISBN(s)
- 1565802942, 1565802926 (set),
- Credits
- Photography, Henri Alekan, Nurith Aviv ; music, Markus Stockhausen.
- Published
- Chicago, Ill. :Facets Video,c2003.
- Publisher no.
- DV62820 Facets Video
- Description
- 1 videodisc (85 min.) : sd, col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD, all regions, full screen presentation; Dolby Digital.
- Technical details
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