Ani Yerushalmi (I was born in Jerusalem). DVD. Format: PAL

Length: 100 Min.

Genre: Documentary / Musical

Director: Yehoram Gaon

Starring: Yehoram Gaon, Hani Nahmias, Rahel Zimmerman

Language: Hebrew

Subtitles: English, Hebrew

Sound: 5.1

I was born in Jerusalem, and 8 years later, I couldn't visit my street  -  the Jewish Street, walk up the narrow staircase, that led to my grandfather's little house and receive a present from him - a penny.

I couldn't get to the Western Wall, and put a note with my requests from God, couldn't visit tombs of the righteous, couldn't cry on Rachel's tomb, one of the Jewish foremothers.

I could just look at my beloved old city of Jerusalem from the roofs of the modern western part of the city and be jealous of pigeons  - free birds that could fly over the wall, guarded by the armed forces, and could get to all the places from my childhood my life, the essence of me.

In 1967  we've returned to the city  -  to all those places we dreamed about at night and we could reunite with our childhood memories.

I took the camera and went to look for my childhood, to try commemorate my memories, so they should stay with me forever, but what my camera caught was a view of a different city, much smaller, more business like, not the magical city of my childhood memories.

This movie "I was born in Jerusalem" is a picture about what I saw in my imagination and the view of the city that my camera saw today.