Hoppe Hoppe Rieter is a clip
from The Documentary film Queen Of Jerusalem
A film by Dalia Mevorach & Dani Dothan
Produced by by Dalia mevorach ,Dani Dothan, Elil Communication
Produced in association with Chanel 8 - Noga communications
Directed by Dalia Mevorach & Dani Dothan
Script Dalia Mevorach, Dani Dothan, Ron Goldman
Cinematography by Itzik Portal
Edited by Ron Goldman
Sound recording Idan Shamash
Sound editing Yossi Appelbaum
Music Jasmin Even
Supported by Dorot Foundation
Clip directed and choreographed by Shasha Dothan
General details:
Genre documentary
Release Year 2009
Length 75 min
Production Country Israel
Synopsis:
When I was a little boy I thought my mother was a queen. She had a dazzling smile, a cold glance, and a commanding tone of voice that told me she was a queen. At night, before bed, she would bounce me on her lap and sing Hoppe Hoppe Reiter, a cruel, ancient German childrens song.
Professor Trude Dothan, 86, is the first lady of Israeli archeology. She is an Israel Prize laureate and an international expert on the Philistines. Her son, musician, writer, and filmmaker Dani Dothan, decides it is time to excavate his mothers energetic life. But then she falls and is housebound for the first time in her life. Dani returns home and that is when the real excavation begins.
He searches trough cabinets and drawers and discovers a life that his mother kept hidden from him. Trude catalogs objects, drawings, even death masks. Layer after layer, Dani uncovers a world he never knew; as the layers unravel so does the relationship between mother and son.
Dani Dothan And Dalia mevorachs film Queen of Jerusalem is a documentary drama whose protagonists are a house full of secrets, a man with an emotional scar, and a mother fighting for her right to live forever, to be a young and victorious queen, even in an ancient body.
Claim / Director's Statement:
We are always looking for the ultimate in-depth story. We search for protagonists so special or situations so unique that they literally transform us. We are always on the look for that special something that we can grasp, and battle with, and finally contain on tape for future generations. We are also looking for a beautiful story set in a unique setting. We sometimes travel across the world for such a story. This time we found it at home. Queen of Jerusalem, Professor Trude Dothan is a mother and a mother in law to us. Question: Was it Simple? Answer: No. But what a beautiful fight it was. What a glories expedition into Trudes house and soul and secrets, and what a year in the editing room with Sigmund Freuds spirit looming above us laughing as the search went into our minds.
About the directors
Dalia Mevorach and Dani Dothan are an Israeli documentary film industry power couple. They met in tel aviv night clubs of the 1980s where Dani was leading the punk/ new wave group Haklik (The Clique) and Dalia was video Documenting there tour of anger and pain. Since 2000 they co-own a film company Elil Communication. They produce and direct all their films together. As protagonists for there documentaries Dalia and Dani always chose intensely individual characters with a unique agenda.
Directors Filmography
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2008 - The mystery of Aris San Dalia Mevorach and Dani Dothan follow the trail of Greek singer Aris San from superstardom In Israel of the 1950s to the grip of New York mafia in the 1970s until his mysterious death/ disappearance in Hungary in 1992 - This film was awarded first prize for editing in the Jerusalem Film Festival 2008
2006 - The Ashkenazim - young Israelis, lost in the Middle East, in search of their Ashkenazi (Jewish European) roots. This film was awarded the Warsaw Phoenix 2006.
2004 - The Blue Lamb - An intense voyage into the life of artist Menashe Kadishman as he endlessly paints colorful sheep heads, symbol of the ultimate sacrifice of war. This film was awarded first prize for cinematography in the Jerusalem Film Festival 2005
1997 - Mother Stayed There - the previously untold story of hundreds of children who where separated from there mothers during the immigration of Ethiopian Jews to Israel in the early 1990s - This film was awarded first prize in the Tel Aviv documentary film festival 1997
Contact Information:
Director's Contact Details:
Name Dalia Mevorach Dani Dothan
Email Eliltikshoret@gmail.com
Cell: 972-54-7495980
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Yossape 2 years ago 8
COOL STUFF!
nevesaj 2 years ago 6