Licensing
The
Children of Abraham And Sophie
Documentary, 95 minutes
Year of prodcution: 2002
Director: Benny Brunner
Authors: Benny Brunner & Joseph Rochlitz
A co-production of LASSO Film & TV Production, Humanistische Omroep (Dutch TV),
Noga Communication (Israel’s Channel 8), and
Benny B
Versions:
English
The
three children of Abraham Braun and Sophie Schopf, including writer and former
Knesset member Mordechai Bar-On, are just part of the family tree in Benny
Brunner's complex and subtle examination of the ties that bind. Gradually, and
leavened by Harry de Wit's haunting, melancholy score, a fascinating picture of
modern Israel and Jewish life today emerges. A the drama of that is involving
Christians, Jews, Muslims, Holocaust victims and Nazis.
In
this family, the roots begin with Abraham Braun and Sophie Schopf, a German Jew
and Catholic respectively who met and fall in love in Breslau in 1920. Sophie
converted to Judaism and they married, emigrating to Palestine in 1924.
The
film also extends backwards to Sophies German relatives in Breslau (now Wroclaw)
and forward to an Arab son-in-law who gently spars with Mordechai, his staunchly
Zionist father-in-law.
© 2002 by Benny Brunner
Photo copyright by Benny Brunner
For licensing and more information please contact:
Björn Jensen
email: jensen(at)gingerfoot.de
