Live and Become

  • Moshe Agazai: Shlomo ( Child)
  • Moshe Abebe: Shlomo ( young people )
  • Sirak M. Sabahat: Shlomo ( Adult)
  • Yael Abecassis: Yael Harrari
  • Roschdy Zem: Yoram Harrari
  • Roni Hadar: Sarah
  • Yitzhak Edgar: QES Amrah
  • Rami Danon: grandfather
  • Meskie Shibru Sivan: Shelomo mother
  • Mimi Abonesh Kebede: Hana
  • Raymonde Abecassis: Suzy

Live and Become (Va, vis et deviens ) is a 2005 Franco- Israeli film published by Radu Mihaileanu who plays against the backdrop of the immigration of Ethiopian Jews to Israel.

Action

Live and begin in 1984 in a refugee camp in Sudan. Thousands of Ethiopian Jews, Christians and Muslims have fled there from the famine in Ethiopia 1984-1985 and suffer now in the " hunger camps" of starvation and disease. The Jews brought to Israel in Operation Moses by plane. A Christian mother then sends her son away in order to save his life, with the words: " Go and live. " The boy is from now on as a Jew from Salomon calls ( Shlomo ), is brought to Israel and adopted by a Jewish family. He must find his way in an alien culture and also deal with the distrust that many white Israelis the black Ethiopian Jews have placed - and not least Schlomo must guard his secret, for coming out that he is not a Jew, he is of the government sent back to Ethiopia. All the while suffering Shlomo also very from the separation from his mother. He is a doctor, marries and returns to the refugee camps, to help and to look for his mother.

Awards and nominations

France Italy 2005 in film Film score Armand Amar 55th Berlin International Film Festival
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