Information
| Year: | 2005 |
| Rating: | 7.9(2701) |
| Listed in: | Drama |
| Directed by: | Radu Mihaileanu |
| Actors: | Roschdy Zem Moshe Agazai Moshe Abebe Sirak M. Sabahat Yitzhak Edgar Yaël Abecassis |
Cast
| Directed by | |
|---|---|
| Radu Mihaileanu | |
| Actors | |
| Roschdy Zem | as Yoram |
| Moshe Agazai | as Schlomo enfant |
| Moshe Abebe | as Schlomo adolescent |
| Sirak M. Sabahat | as Schlomo adulte |
| Yitzhak Edgar | as Le Qès Amara |
| Rami Danon | as Papy |
| Yosi Alfi | as Rabbin Talmud Tora |
| Shmil Ben Ari | as Directeur internat |
| Shlomo Vishinsky | as Le policier |
| Shai Fredo | as Le traducteur |
| Elias Nazich | as Dany enfant |
| Jonatan Regev | as Dany adolescent |
| Tomer Offner | as Dany adulte |
| Dor Shlosberg | as Michael Leibovitch |
| Avi Oriah | as Le père de Sara |
| Shimon Mimran | as Psychologue internat |
| Abraham Celektar | as Le fonctionnaire israélien 1 |
| Marek Rozenbaum | as Le fonctionnaire israélien 2 |
| Elad Atrakchi | as Itai |
| Mahmoud Kadah | as Murad |
| Shmuel Beru | as L'Ethiopien |
| Meir Suissa | as Le docteur français |
| Menissan Solomon | as Ethiopien israélien 1 |
| Shaul Mizrahi | as Père palestinien |
| Gal Hoyberger | as Lieutenant |
| Itzak Tegenae | as Tzvi |
| Emmanuel Ulli Laor | as Directeur école |
| Eitan Glass | as Rabbin internat |
| Avi Hadash | as Professeur internat |
| David Smadar | as Rabbin docteur |
| Yehuda Fuchs | as Grand Rabbin |
| Ale Getao | as Qès centre médical |
| Yossi Vassa | as Mike |
| Matan Franco | as Adolescent Kibboutz 1 |
| Aaron Vodovoz | as Jeune homme Kibboutz |
| Hen Koren | as Adolescent Kibboutz 2 |
| Ben Heinberg | as Adolescent Kibboutz 3 |
| Shimon Siani | as Le garde du Kibboutz |
| Adir Bakala | as Garçon télé |
| Patrick Descamps | as Narrateur |
| Pierre-Jean Chérer | as Reporter Guerre Golfe |
| Hervé Pauchon | as Reporter Soudan |
| Yasser Arafat | as Himself |
| Bill Clinton | as Himself |
| Yitzhak Rabin | as Himself |
| Actresses | |
| Yaël Abecassis | as Yael |
| Roni Hadar | as Sara |
| Mimi Abonesh Kebede | as Hana - la mère Juive Ethiopienne |
| Meskie Shibru Sivan | as La mère de Schlomo |
| Raymonde Abecassis | as Suzy |
| Joy Rieger | as Tali enfant |
| Talia de Vries | as Tali adolescente |
| Lana Ettinger | as Tali adulte |
| Esti Elias | as Fille discothèque |
| Elana Wondme | as Petite fille |
| Mehereta Barush | as Mère petite fille |
| Rachel Melesa | as L'infirmière de Natania |
| Zoe Naveh | as Einat |
| Lascha Shimshoni | as L'enseignante de l'école |
| Fitum Ayela | as Infirmier du camp |
| Kasanshe Worku | as La mère de Schlomo - 20 ans après |
| Rivkaée Abravachy | as Mandala, the cow |
Movie info
| Languages: | Amharic, Hebrew, French |
| Filming dates: | March 2004 - ? |
| Plot: | In 1980 the black Falashas in Ethiopia are recognised as genuine Jews. In turn they are secretly carried to Israel. The day before the transport the son of a Jewish mother dies. In his place and with his name (Schlomo) she takes a Christian 9-year-old boy. Upon arrival this second mother dies. Schlomo is adopted by a good family but remains depressed until he secretly sends a letter to his real mother. From the beginning he experiences large and small racist difficulties. In his teens he and Sarah fall in love. Her father is an extreme racist. Schlomo tries to gain "real Jewishness" by winning a competition in Bible interpretation. No change of Sarah's father's attitude. Disappointed he goes to the police and reports himself as not being a Jew. But the police officer just gives him a scolding. "The newspapers are full of that stuff, the Falashas are no Jews. Now they begin to believe it themselves." His adoptive parents send him to France to study medicine. When he afterwards marries Sarah she loses her family and her status as a "white Jew". But he dares not tell her the truth until she becomes pregnant. She leaves him, but only because he had not trusted that she would love him as much anyway. His adoptive mother reconciles them. Sarah's first line when she returns: "Unbelievable what three mothers would do for you." But she makes a condition for returning: Schlomo must meet his real mother again. As a doctor he takes a job in the Ethiopian fugitive camp where she is still alive. |
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Tags
| jew, love, ethiopia, france, fugitive, 1980s, unhappiness, marriage, adoption, racism, hunger, 1990s, medical-doctor, paris-france, rescue, biblical-interpretation |
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Narrateur: They had been forgotten on their mountaintops, near Gondar. Yet, since the dawn of time, the Ethiopian Jews, known as the "Falashas", dreamed of returning to their homeland, the Holy Land, Jerusalem. With Israeli and U.S. Aid, a vast program was undertaken from November to January 1985 to transport the Ethiopian Jews to Israel. The Falashas were returned and finally recognized as descendants of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. The Israeli secret service carried out the operation on the sly, keeping it from the Mengitsu pro-Soviet regime who had prohibited their emigration. The Falashas walked from Ethiopia to Sudan, a Muslim country under Charia law. There, they had to hide their Jewish identity under pain of death In Sudan, planes awaited to take them to Israel. On the road, hundreds died of sickness, famine, exhaustion. Others were killed by bandits. In the 1980s, the Sudanese camps welcomed thousands of Africans from 26 countries who were prey to famine: Christians, Muslims, and clandestine Jews. The first secret airlift operation, known as "Operation Moses", saved 8,000 Ethiopian Jews. 4,000 died on the road between Ethiopia and Sudan, murdered, tortured or suffering from famine, thirst and exhaustion. Many children reached the Holy Land alone or as orphans. |
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