Published 2009
“…Verzio FF Submission
Duration: 01:04:00
In 1933 Walter Christeller, cameraman at the UFA studios in Babelsberg, was forced to leave Berlin and start a new life in Palestine where he worked mainly for the Jewish National fund. 75 years later Walter’s granddaughter, student at Munich film school, searches for the legacy of her grandfather’s life and work in
Israel. Walter Christeller was not just an emigrant and pioneer of the Jewish State, he also pursued and documented the regional change with his camera at close range. …”