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Feb 1, 2008 · Live and Become: Directed by Radu Mihaileanu. With Yaël Abecassis, Roschdy Zem, Moshe Agazai, Moshe Abebe. A Christian boy escapes to Israel from famine-stricken Ethiopia by pretending to be Jewish.
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- Drama
- Radu Mihaileanu
- 2008-02-01
His birth mother, who hopes for a better life for him, tells him "Go, live, and become," as he leaves her to get on the bus. 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. Cast. Moshe Agazai as Child Schlomo; Moshe Abebe as Teenage Schlomo
Feb 1, 2008 · For most of those two decades the young unnamed African, who assumes the name Schlomo, lives a lie. (He is played by Moshe Agazai as a boy, Mosche Abebe as an adolescent and Sirak M. Sabahat as...
- Stephen Holden
- Radu Mihaileanu
The woman who lost her son agrees to become his surrogate mother and together they board a jet plane provided by Mossad that will take thousands of starving and persecuted Ethiopian Jews to Israel to be integrated into that society. The Christian boy takes the name of Schlomo (Moshe Agazai).
Renamed Schlomo (and played, at various points, by Moshe Agazai, Mosche Abebe, and Sirak M. Sabahat), he lands in a supportive if imperfect family, including a sugary mensch of a mother (Yaël...
Feb 14, 2005 · A non-Jewish Ethopian woman (Meki Shibru Sivan) spots a way for her 9-year-old son (Moshe Agazai) to survive and sends him to join the Falashas, telling him to “go, live and become,” although...
In 1980 the black Falashas in Ethiopia are recognised as genuine Jews and are secretly carried to Israel. The day before the transport the son of a Jewish mother dies. In his place and with his name (Schlomo) she takes a Christian 9-year-old boy.
- 120 min
