Live and Become (2005)
Original Title: Va, vis et deviens
Drama
7.5 (184 votes)
2h 20m
Overview
In 1980, the black Falashas in Ethiopia are recognised as genuine Jews and 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.
Details
- Director
- Radu Mihăileanu
- Original Language
- French
- Budget
- $5,650,000
Cast
Meskie Shibru Sivan
Mimi Abonesh Kebede
Moshe Abebe
Moshe Agazai
Rami Danon
Roni Hadar
Roschdy Zem
Sirak M. Sabahat
Yaël Abecassis
Yitzhak Edgar
Keywords
1980s
adoption
bar mitzvah
doctor
doctors without borders
ethiopia
famine
immigration
loss of loved one
love of one's life
medicine
military service
parent child relationship
paris
france
post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd)
rabbi
refugee camp
studies
sudan
tel aviv
israel
trauma
underdog
xenophobia
zionism
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