A group of motorcyclists ride from Israel to Germany to symbolically claim their past in Catherine Lurie’s sobering and thoughtful documentary
Back to Berlin is a sombre, thoughtful documentary about the 2015 Maccabiah Games, held every four years and sometimes called the “Jewish Olympics”.
They were invented in 1912 to give Jewish people a sporting outlet due to anti-semites throughout Europe banning them from an increasing number of sports organisations and clubs, and also because burgeoning Zionism was encouraging a new kind of pioneer health and fitness.
Back to Berlin is a sombre, thoughtful documentary about the 2015 Maccabiah Games, held every four years and sometimes called the “Jewish Olympics”.
They were invented in 1912 to give Jewish people a sporting outlet due to anti-semites throughout Europe banning them from an increasing number of sports organisations and clubs, and also because burgeoning Zionism was encouraging a new kind of pioneer health and fitness.
- 11/21/2018
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
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