Lullaby to My Father

Amos Gitai interweaves historical events and personal memories to create a portrait of his father, Israeli architect Munio Weinraub. Gitai tells the story of his father, who was a student at the Bauhaus design and architecture school in the city of Dessau, before Hitler closed the school. In May 1933, Weinraub was accused of "treason against the German people", sent to prison, and later deported from Germany. The film follows Munio's route from Poland to Germany, from Switzerland to Palestine. Upon his arrival in Haifa, he began a career as an architect and adapted European modernist principles to the Middle East.