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Live and Become is a israelien film of genre Drama directed by Radu Mihaileanu released in USA on 30 march 2005 with Sirak M. Sabahat
Live and Become (2005)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 30 march 2005
Length 2h20
Directed by Radu Mihaileanu
OriginIsrael
Genres Drama
Themes Films about adoption, Films set in Africa, Films about alcoholism, Films about children, Films about immigration, Films about religion, La précarité, Films about Jews and Judaism
Rating77%
Live and Become (French: Va, Vis et Deviens) is a 2005 French 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 Cannes, Berlin and Vancouver film festivals among others.
Synopsis
Shlomo, 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 board the plane. 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.Actors
Sirak M. Sabahat
(Schlomo (adult))
Yaël Abecassis
(Yaël)
Roschdy Zem
(Yoram Harrari)
Lana Ettinger
(Tali adulte)
Patrick Descamps
(Narrateur (voice))
Hervé Pauchon
(Reporter Soudan (voice))
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