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Lullaby to my Father (2012)

Lullaby to my Father (2012)

Drama Documentary
Release Date: 2012, October 30
Directors: Amos Gitai
Countries: Switzerland, France, Israel, Italy
Production: AGAV Films, ARTE France Cinéma, Elefant Films, Hamon Hafakot, Agav Hafakot, ARTE
Cast: Jeanne Moreau, Hanna Schygulla, Yaël Abecassis, Ran Danker, Theo Ballmer, Keren Gitai, Ben Gitai, Paula Hedvall, Astrid Leutwyler, Hanna Maron, Ahmad Mesgarha, Werner Moeller

Overview:

The film intertwines historical events and intimate memories. I observe how architecture represents the transformations of society and those who give form to this architecture. We follow the journey of Munio, my father, born in 1909 in Silesia, Poland, the son of a tenant farmer of a Prussian junker. At the age of 18, Munio goes to Berlin and Dessau to meet Walter Gropius, Kandinsky and Paul Klee at the Bauhaus. In 1933, the Bauhaus was closed by the Nazis, who accused Munio of treason against the German people. Munio was imprisoned, then deported to Basel. He left for Palestine. Upon his arrival in Haifa, he began a career as an architect and adapted European modernist principles to the Middle East.

Keywords:

father son relationship architecture bauhaus