Lullaby to my Father

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.

Cast

Jeanne Moreau

Narrator (voice)

Amos Gitai

Narrator (voice)

Yaël Abecassis

Efratia

N/A

Theo Ballmer

Self

Ran Danker

Munio

N/A

Keren Gitai

Self

N/A

Ben Gitai

Self

N/A

Paula Hedvall

Self

N/A

Astrid Leutwyler

Self

N/A

Hanna Maron

Narrator (voice)

Ahmad Mesgarha

Avocat de Munio

N/A

Werner Moeller

Self