ID

FBW000294      Documentary

Country / Year

Palestine, 1939-1940

Original Title

Children of the Sun / Yaldei Haschemesch

Other Title(s)

Kinder der Sonne [ÜT] (German)
Yaldei Hashemesh

Directed by

Helmar Lerski

Produced by

Histadrut, Tel Aviv

Staff

Production manager: Yosef Burstein, Zalman Aran; Location manager: Naftali Rubinstein; Camera: Robert Ziller; Assistent cameraman: Rolf Michael Kneller

Length

12'52''

Format

16mm/sw/1:1,37

Further Remarks

- Tonsystem: ohne Ton
- Drehort: Kibbuz Givat Brenner

Abstract

Activities of children in Givat Brenner. Scenes include: children playing, tending chicks, with donkey and cows, greeting man on tractor eating and washing up afterwards, planting and watering vegetable garden, in orange orchards, at kindergarten, carpentry class, learning, statue of Chaim Brenner after whom the kibbutz is named, digging. Boys playing soldiers, call to arms, mounted on horses.

Subject Terms

1930-1939; Exile films; Givat Brenner; General Federation of Workers in the Land of Israel; Palestine

Holdings

- Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive, Jerusalem: 12'52''; 16mm; engl. Version

Bibliography

- S.W.: "Helmar Lerski at Seventy. Close-Up of a Great Photographer", in: The Palestine Post (Jerusalem), Vol. 15, Nr. 4496, 21.02.1941
- Eskildsen, Ute / Horak, Jan-Christopher (Hg.): Helmar Lerski. Lichtbildner. Fotografien und Filme 1910-1947. Essen: Fotografische Sammlung Museum Folkwang, 1983
- Loewy, Ronny: "Helmar (Hjalmar) Lerski - Kameramann, Regisseur", Cinegraph. Lexikon zum deutschsprachigen Film, Lieferung Nr. 3, Bock; Hans Michael (Hg.), München: Text + Kritik, 1985
- Loewy, Ronny: "Adamah. Helmar Lerskis letzter Film", in: Filmexil (Berlin), Nr. 11, November, 01.11.1998