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LULLABY TO MY FATHER

By Amos GITAÏ

EPICENTRE FILMS - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD

Documentary - Completed 2012

- Year of production
- 2012
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- FRANCE
- Duration
- 90 mn
- Director(s)
- Amos GITAÏ
- ISAN
- 0000-0003-254D-0000-G-0000-0000-Q
- EIDR
- 10.5240/5C6C-B273-316B-76CB-30AD-E
- Synopsis
- We follow the journey of Munio, Amos Gitai’s father, born in 1909 in Silesia, Poland, the son of a sharecropper of a Prussian junker. At 18, Munio leaves for Berlin and Dessau to study the Bauhaus of Walter Gropius, Kandisky and Paul Klee. In 1933 the Bauhaus is closed and soon after the Nazis accuse Munio of betraying the German people. Munio is jailed, then deported to Basel. From there he leaves for Palestine. Once in Haifa, he starts his career as an architect, adapting the European modernist principles for the Middle East.
  The movie is a voyage searching for the relationships between a father and his son, architecture and movies, the history of a journey and intimate memories. Like in the movie CARMEL, based on director’s mother, Efratia's letters, there is no chronological sequence of events. It is not a reconstituted biography, but a mosaic. The story comes together piece by piece, as a poetical association of pictures, faces, voyages, real architecture and snippets of fiction. The movie interweaves historical events and intimate memories. Amos Gitai examines the way that architecture represents changes in society and those that shape the architecture. For the filmmaker, the traveler to these places, reality and remembrance are juxtapositions of fragments becoming incarnate in the movie.