Israel / France / Russia 2014
Language: German, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Yiddish
Subtitles: English
Director: Amos Gitai
Camera: Giora Bejach
Script: Amos Gitai, Marie-Jose Sanselme
Editor: Yuval Orr, Isabelle Ingold
Cast: Sarah Adler, Meshi Olinski, Adam Tsekhman, Natalia Voitulevitch Manor,Audrey Kashkar, Yelena Yaralova,Lea Koenig,Marek Tsekhman
Producer: Pavel Douvidzon, Yury Krestinskiy, Laurent Truchot
Music: Alexey Kochetkov
Distributer: Agav Films
Lenght: 84 Min
Age Limit: <

Together with a young man with whom she has a child involuntarily, the jewish girl Tsili survives the Second World War in a recess under a bush. TSILI is less of an adaptation of the homonymous Novel by Aharon Appelfeld than a play with scenes, images and historical figures, that are given new particular values by Gitai’s modernistic-minimalistic but enormously physical setting. The power that is needed to fight through the undergrowth and the difficulty to speak without having much to eat for days can be felt by the audience most intensely. Apropos: TSILI is one of the very few movies whose dialogues are for the most part in Yiddisch.