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Berlin-Jerusalem
''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. Synopsis The film tells the story of two women in the 1930s. The first, Else Lasker-Schüler (Lisa Kreuzer), a German expressionist poet, observes the rise of Nazism in Berlin before leaving for Jerusalem. The second, the Russian Manya Shochat (Rivka Neumann), called Tania in the film, settles in a community in Israel. Production The film was produced by , includes the artistic contributions of Pina Bausch and was inspired by the paintings of George Grosz, was financed by the Italian public television, Nederlandse Omroep Stichting, La Sept, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport’s UK Government Investments’s Channel Four Television Corporation’s Film4 Productions, the Centre national d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amos Gitai
Amos Gitai ( he, עמוס גיתאי; born 11 October 1950) is an Israeli filmmaker, who was trained as an architect. Gitai's work was presented in several major retrospectives in Pompidou Center in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and Lincoln Center in New York, and the British Film Institute in London. To date, Amos Gitai has created over 90 works of art, including a wide variety of formats such as feature and short films, fiction and documentaries, experimental work, television productions, installations and theater works. Between 1999 and 2017 ten of his films participated in the Cannes Film Festival for the Palme d'Or as well as The Venice International Film Festival for the Golden Lion award. He has worked with Juliette Binoche, Jeanne Moreau, Natalie Portman, Yael Abecassis, Samuel Fuller, Hanna Schygulla, Annie Lennox, Barbara Hendricks, Léa Seydoux, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Henri Alekan, Renato Berta, Nurith Aviv, Éric Gautier and more. Since 2000 h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Alekan
Henri Alekan (10 February 1909, Paris – 15 June 2001, Auxerre, Bourgogne) was a French cinematographer. Life Alekan was born in Montmartre in 1909. At the age of sixteen he and his brother became travelling puppeteers. A little later he started work as third assistant cameraman at the Billancourt Studios. He then spent a short time in the army, returning to Billancourt in 1931. In the late 1930s he was the camera operator to Eugene Shufftan on Marcel Carné's ''Quai des Brumes'' and '' Drôle de drame''. He was greatly influenced by Schufftan's non-naturalistic style. His first success as a director of photography was René Clément's realistic war drama ''La Bataille du Rail'' of 1946. In the same year he worked on Jean Cocteau's fable ''La Belle et la Bête''. He found himself out of sympathy with the French New Wave cinema which emerged in the late 1950s and Alekan shot some rather conventional films in Hollywood. A new generation of directors appreciated his vision ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manya Shochat
Manya Shochat (1880–1961) was a Russian-Jewish politician and the "mother" of the collective settlement in Palestine, the forerunner of the kibbutz movement. Biography Manya Wilbushewitch (also Mania, Wilbuszewicz/Wilbushewitz; later Shochat) was born in the Grodno Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Belarus) to wealthy Jewish parents and grew up on the family estate near Łosośna. She was a descent of Comte Vibois an officer in Napoleon's army who converted to Judaism after marrying a Jewish woman. One of her brothers, Isaac, studied agriculture in Russia. He was expelled for slapping a professor who, in the course of a lecture, stated that the Jews were sucking the blood of the farmers in Ukraine. In late 1882, he left for Palestine and joined the Bilu movement. His letters home were a powerful influence on young Manya. Another one of her brothers, an engineer named Gedaliah, also went to Palestine in 1892 and helped fund his younger siblings' education. As a yo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Sept
La Sept was a French free-to-air television network and production company created on 23 February 1986 to develop cultural and educational programming for transmission via the TDF 1 satellite. In French, the word "sept" means the number seven; it not only represents the seventh network to have signed on in France, but it also serves as a backronym, for ''Société d'édition de programmes de télévision'' (Television Programme Production Corporation). History In 1985, Georges Fillioud, French Minister of Transport, charged Pierre Desgraupes with creating programmes for one or more of the five channels of the high power satellite TDF 1 launched in 1988. On 27 February 1986, La Société d'édition de programmes de télévision was created by Bernard Faivre d'Arcier, cultural adviser to the Prime Minister Laurent Fabius and began to develop a stock of programmes. It was chaired by historian George Duby. In March 1989, the full name of La Sept changed, becoming ''La Société e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Ivanir
Mark Alexandrovich Ivanir ( he, מארק איווניר; uk, Марк Олександрович Іванір; russian: Марк Александрович Иванир) is a Ukrainian-born Israeli actor known for his character actor, character roles on American film and television. He is fluent in six languages, a skill often shown off in his performances. Early life Ivanir was born in Chernovtsi (now Chernivtsi), Ukrainian SSR. His family emigrated to Israel in 1972, and settled in the Pardes Katz neighbourhood of Bnei Brak. His father, Alexander, was an English teacher, and his mother, Malka, a German teacher. His maternal grandfather, Meshulem Surkis, was a Yiddish writer, journalist, actor, and theatre critic, who was a well known activist in the Yiddish cultural world. He was raised in a multilingual household; speaking Hebrew, Ukrainian, and Russian, and later learning English. His national service in the Israeli Defense Forces saw him involved in Operation Joshua, one ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juliano Mer-Khamis
Juliano Mer-Khamis ( he, ג'וליאנו מר ח'מיס; ar, جوليانو مير خميس; born Juliano Khamis; 29 May 19584 April 2011) was an Israeli/Palestinian actor, director, filmmaker, and political activist of Jewish and Palestinian Eastern Orthodox Christian parentage. On 4 April 2011, he was assassinated by a masked gunman in the Palestinian city of Jenin, where he had established The Freedom Theatre. Biography Juliano Khamis (later Mer-Khamis) was born in Nazareth, the son of Arna Mer-Khamis, a former Palmach combatant who had turned communist and joined the Maki on experiencing disenchantment with Zionism after having participated in operations to drive Bedouin inhabitants out of parts of the Negev, and Saliba Khamis, an Israeli Arab of Eastern Orthodox Palestinian Christian descent who was an intellectual as well as one of the leaders of the Israeli Communist Party in the 1950s. He was called Sputnik Hamis at birth. He had two brothers, Spartacus and Abi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Eisenschitz
Bernard Eisenschitz (born 3 July 1944 in Saint-Calais, France) is a French film critic, subtitler and historian. He has also directed, produced and restored films. Achievements Eisenschitz modelled himself on the film historian Georges Sadoul, the definitive edition of whose masterwork, the ''Histoire générale du cinéma'', he edited. Eisenschitz is an internationally known expert on Fritz Lang and Nicholas Ray, as well as Chris Marker and Robert Kramer. He has worked and published on Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, Ernst Lubitsch, German cinema and the history of the Cinémathèque française, among other topics. Eisenschitz wrote for '' Cahiers du cinéma'' between about 1967 and 1972, and for '' La nouvelle critique'' from 1970 to 1977. In 2001, he founded the periodical ''Cinéma''. In the same year, he completed the definitive restoration of Jean Vigo's film ''L'Atalante'' and made a documentary on the film's different restorations entitled ''Les Voyages de L'Atalante''. He h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veronica Lazăr
Veronica Lazăr (6 October 1938 – 8 June 2014) was a Romanian-born Italian actress. Biography Lazăr was born in Bucharest in 1938. She graduated from the Caragiale Academy of Theatrical Arts and Cinematography (where she also obtained a degree in psychology, which she practiced until 1994, dealing mainly in couples therapy) and subsequently played roles in Romanian theatre otably a run of '' communism and eventually settled in Italy in 1965. She managed to learn the Italian language">Italian language in only a few weeks and had planned to move on to the United States or Israel, but became entranced with Rome. There, she met and married Italian actor Adolfo Celi with whom she had two children, director Leonardo Celi and actress Alessandra Celi. She made her screen debut as Marlon Brando's deceased wife in Bernardo Bertolucci's '' Last Tango in Paris'' (1972), and also appeared in some of the director's subsequent films, '' La Luna'' (1979), '' The Sheltering Sky'' (1990), a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vernon Dobtcheff
Vernon Dobtcheff (born 14 August 1934) is a British actor, best known for his roles on television and film, he has acted in numerous stage productions. Biography Dobtcheff was born in Nîmes, France, of Russian descent. He attended Ascham Preparatory School in Eastbourne, Sussex, England, in the 1940s, where he won the Acting Cup. One of his many television roles was as the Chief Scientist in the '' Doctor Who'' series ''The War Games'' in 1969, in which he became the first actor ever to mention the Time Lords by name. He appeared in the ''Blake's 7'' episode "Shadow" as the Chairman of the Terra Nostra in 1979. He has appeared in such films as '' The Day of the Jackal'' (1973), ''Murder on the Orient Express'' (1974), '' The Spy Who Loved Me'' (1977), '' Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade'' (1989), and ''Before Sunset'' (2004). In his 2006 memoir, ''Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins'', British actor Rupert Everett describes an encounter with Dobtcheff on the boat train to P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antoine Bonfanti
Antoine Bonfanti (23 October 1923 - 4 March 2006) was a French sound engineer and a professor at cinema schools and institutes in France and other countries. He taught regularly at INSAS in Brussels and EICTV in Cuba. He was born 26 October 1923 in Ajaccio, Corsica, and died 4 March 2006 in Montpellier, France. Career He began learning his profession as a trainee boom-operator on the film ''La Belle et la Bête'' by Jean Cocteau. He is considered as being one of the pioneers of direct-sound in film-making on location: “the school of direct-sound is French - said the sound-engineer Jean-Pierre Ruh- it began with Antoine Bonfanti”. He is characterised by his collaborations with directors as Bernardo Bertolucci, André Delvaux, Amos Gitaï, Jean Luc Godard, Joris Ivens, William Klein, Chris Marker, Gérard Oury, Alain Resnais, René Vautier, and Paul Vecchiali. (see filmography below). His primary occupation is the authenticity of sound: above all he likes building t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nurith Aviv
Nurtih Aviv is a French film director and director of photography who was born 11 March 1945, in Tel Aviv (then in Mandatory Palestine). Biography Nurith Aviv has directed fourteen documentary films, and the topic of language is central to her personal and cinematographic exploration. Aviv was the first woman to be recognized as Director of Photography by the CNC, the French National Center for Cinema and Animation, and has served as cinematographer for some one hundred feature and documentary films (for directors who include Agnès Varda, Amos Gitaï, René Allio and Jacques Doillon Jacques Doillon (; born 15 March 1944) is a French film director. He has a habit of giving lead roles to inexperienced young actresses in his films on family life and women. Some actresses to break through are Fanny Bastien, Sandrine Bonnaire, ...). In 2019, Aviv was the recipient of the Grand Prix of the Académie Française (nominated by Amin Maalouf) In 2015, a retrospective of her oe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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