Live and Become a Drama Film by Radu Mihaileanu DVD Va, vis et deviens

 

 

 

Directed by Radu Mihaileanu

 

France, Belgium, Italy, Israel

Released: 2005

Hebrew, French, Amharic

140 minutes

Live and Become (: Va, vis et deviens) is a 2005 French drama about an Ethiopian Christian boy who is infiltrated among Ethiopian Jews in order to escape famine and to emigrate to Israel. The film follows his growing up and living as a Jew in Israel. It was directed by Romanian-born Radu Mihăileanu. It won awards at the Berlin and Vancouver and other film festivals.
The magnificent, epic story of an Ethiopian 
boy who is airlifted from a Sudanese refugee camp to Israel 
in 1984 during Operation Moses. Shlomo is plagued by two big secrets: 
He is neither a Jew nor an orphan, just an African boy who survived
 and wants, somehow, to fulfill his Ethiopian mother’s parting request 
that he “go, live, and become.” Buoyed by a profound and unfaltering 
motherly love – both in his memory and in the arms of his adoptive mother
 – he ultimately finds an identity and a happiness all his own.