“Live and Become “

Aren’t you tired of watching Classical American movies? Let me recommend you a French one in which the spoken languages are Amharic, Hebrew and French, but you can choose the subtitles in English and there you are! An English text. But apart from the French origin, this movie is a marvelous piece of art within a historical background that at least for me is really interesting. The movie is called “Live and Become “or “Va, Vis et Deviens”or “Ser digno de ser” made in 2005. It’s about an Ethiopian Christian boy who is placed by his mother with an Ethiopian Jewish woman whose child has died. She makes him pretend to be Jewish to escape famine and emigrates to Israel during Operation Moses in 1984 based on the belief that Ethiopians are descendants of Israelite tribes. This population is known as Falasha and constituted The Beta Israel community.- I highly recommend this film, it’s a bit long but don’t miss the effective end.

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