Zion, Auto-Emancipation

1998. Israel. Directed by Amos Gitai. When Theodor Herzl brought up the issue of the creation of a Jewish state during the first Zionist Congress, in 1897 in Basel, Gitai's maternal grandfather was in attendance. In 1933, Gitai's father also passed through Basel as he fled Nazi Germany. This film traces two journeys over a century: from Basel to Jerusalem, and from Vienna to Haifa. In Hebrew, French, English; French subtitles. 110 min.