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Berlin-Jerusalem (1989)

Berlin-Jerusalem poster
Original title
ברלין ירושלים
Directed by
Amos Gitai
Genre
drama film
Country
Israel
Runtime
1h 29m
Rating
5.2 of 10 from 8 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

In the 1930s, a German woman travels from Berlin to Jerusalem to join a struggling community of Jewish immigrants. The film intercuts her story with that of another woman navigating the chaos of pre-war Berlin.

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What happens

Berlin-Jerusalem (Hebrew: ברלין ירושלים; tr. Berlin Yerushalayim) is an 89-minute 1989 British-Dutch-French-Israeli-Italian English-, French-, German-, and Hebrew-language independent underground dramatic historical experimental art film directed by Amos Gitai. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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