Live and Become
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| Directed by | Radu Mihaileanu |
| Produced by |
Denis Carot Marie Masmonteil Radu Mihaileanu Marek Rozenbaum Itai Tamir |
| Written by |
Alain-Michel Blanc Radu Mihaileanu |
| Starring | Moshe Agazai Moshe Abebe Sirak M. Sabahat Yael Abecassis Roschdy Zem Roni Hadar Rami Danon Raymonde Abecassis Mimi Abonesh Kebede Meskie Shibru-Sivan Hadar |
| Narrated by | Patrick Descamps |
| Music by | Armand Amar |
| Cinematography | Rémy Chevrin |
| Edited by | Ludo Troch |
| Distributed by | Les Films du Losange |
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140 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French Amharic Hebrew |
| Budget | €5.3 million |
| Box office | $3.7 million |
Live and Become (French: Va, vis et deviens) is a 2005 French drama film about an Ethiopian Christian boy who disguises himself as an Ethiopian Jew to escape famine and emigrates to Israel. It was directed by Romanian-born Radu Mihăileanu. It won awards at the Cannes, Berlin and Vancouver film festivals among others.
Schlomo, an Ethiopian boy, is placed by his Christian mother with an Ethiopian Jewish woman whose child has died. This woman, who will become his adoptive mother, is about to be airlifted from a Sudanese refugee camp to Israel during Operation Moses in 1984. 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.
Audience Awards unless otherwise noted
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