Live and Become
Live and Become is a 2005 French drama film about an Ethiopian Christian boy who disguises himself as an Ethiopian Jew to escape famine and emigrates to Israel. It was directed by Romanian-born Radu Mihăileanu. It won awards at the Berlin and Vancouver film festivals among others.
Plot
Schlomo, an Ethiopian boy, is placed by his Christian mother with an Ethiopian Jewish woman whose child has died. This woman, who will become his adoptive mother, is about to be airlifted from a Sudanese refugee camp to Israel during Operation Moses in 1984. His birth mother, who hopes for a better life for him, tells him "Go, live, and become," as he leaves her to get on the bus. The film tells of his growing up in Israel and how he deals with the secrets he carries: not being Jewish and having left his birth mother.
Cast
- Abraham Celektar
- Avi Hadash
- Avi Oriah
- Bill Clinton
- David Smadar
- Hervé Pauchon
- Lana Ettinger
- Marek Rozenbaum
- Meir Suissa
- Meskie Shibru-Sivan
- Patrick Descamps
- Rami Danon
- Raymonde Abecassis
- Roni Hadar
- Roschdy Zem
- Shaul Mizrahi
- Shimon Mimran
- Shlomo Vishinsky
- Shmil Ben Ari
- Shmuel Beru
- Sirak M. Sabahat
- Tomer Offner
- Yaël Abecassis
- Yasser Arafat
- Yehuda Fuchs
- Yossi Alfi
- Zinedine Zidane
More details
| author | Alain-Michel Blanc Radu Mihăileanu |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Sudan |
| director | Radu Mihăileanu |
| editor | Ludo Troch |
| events | Operation Moses |
| genre | drama |
| keywords | adoptive mother beta israel better life ethiopian jewish grow up jewish woman refugee camp |
| musicBy | Armand Amar |
| producer | Denis Carot |
| publisher | Les Films du Losange |