Live and Become ( Va, vis et deviens ) ( Vai e vivrai )

Live and Become (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Va, vis et deviens
Alternate Title: Vai e vivrai
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Berlin International Film Festival
Ceasar Awards
Vancouver International Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 4 )

Running Time:
140 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2005 and produced in:
Belgium ( France, Benelux )
France ( France, Benelux )
Israel ( Africa, Middle East )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
Radu Mihaileanu

Written By:
Alain-Michel Blanc
Radu Mihaileanu

Actors:
Yaël Abecassis ..... Yaël Harrari
Roschdy Zem ..... Yoram Harrari
Moshe Agazai ..... Schlomo (child)
Moshe Abebe ..... Schlomo (teenager)
Sirak M. Sabahat ..... Schlomo (adult)
Roni Hadar ..... Sarah
Yitzhak Edgar ..... Qès Amrah
Rami Danon ..... Papy
Meskie Shibru Sivan ..... Schlomo's mother
Mimi Abonesh Kebede ..... Hana
Raymonde Abecassis ..... Suzy
Rivkaée Abravachy ..... Mandala, the cow
Yasser Arafat ..... Himself (archive footage)
Elad Atrakchi ..... Itai
Fitum Ayela ..... Infirmière de camp
Adir Bakal ..... Garçon Télé
Mehereta Barush ..... Mère de la Petite fille
Shmil Ben Ari ..... Boarding School Manager
Abraham Celektar ..... Fonctionnaire Israelien 1
Pierre-Jean Chérer ..... Voix off reporter guerre du Golfe
Bill Clinton ..... Himself (archive footage)
Shmuel Deru ..... Ethiopien
Patrick Descamps ..... Voix off
Smader Dodik ..... Rabbin docteur
Lana Ettinger ..... Tali adulte
Natan Franco ..... Adolescent Kibboutz 1
Shai Fredo ..... Interpreter
Yehuda Fuchs ..... Grand Rabbin
Ale Getao ..... Professeur internat
Avi Hadash ..... Adolescent Kibboutz 3
Ben Heinberg ..... Lieutenant
Gal Hoyberger ..... Dany Harrari (adolescent)
Regev Jonatan ..... Murad
Mahmoud Kadah ..... Adolescent Kibboutz 2
Ken Koren ..... Directeur d'école
Emmenuel Ulli Laor ..... Infirmière
Rachel Melesa ..... Psychologue Internat
Shimon Mimran ..... Palestinian Father
Shaul Mizrahi ..... Dany Harrari (Child)
Zoe Nayeh ..... Dany Harrari (adult)
Elias Nazich ..... Sara's father
Tomer Offner ..... Voix off reporter Soudan
Avi Oriah ..... Himself (archive footage)
Hervé Pauchon ..... Tali enfant
Yitzhak Rabin ..... Fonctionnaire israelien 2
Joy Rieger ..... Enseihnante de l'école
Marek Rozenbaum ..... Mikhail Lebovich
Lascha Shimshoni ..... Ethiopirn israelien 2
Dor Shlosberg ..... The Doctor
Shimon Siani ..... Tzvi
Menissan Solomon ..... Officer Michael Kaplan
Meir Suissa ..... Jeune homme Kibboutz
Itzak Tegenal ..... Petite fille
Yossi Vassa ..... Mère de Schlomo 20 ans après
Shlomo Vishinsky
Aaron Vodovoz
Elana Wondme
Kasanshe Worku

Synopsis:

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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