Lullaby to My Father

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Lullaby to My Father
Directed by	Amos Gitai
Written by	Amos Gitai
Produced by	Amos Gitai Laurent Truchot Alex Iordachescu
Starring	Jeanne Moreau Hanna Schygulla Hanna Maron
Cinematography	Gabriele Basilico Giora Bejach Renato Berta Richard Copans Amos Gitai
Edited by	Isabelle Ingold
Music by	Zoë Keating
Release dates	1 September 2012 (2012-09-01) (Venice Film Festival) 16 January 2013 (2013-01-16) (France)
Running time	87 minutes
Countries	Israel France Switzerland
Language	French

Lullaby to My Father is a 2012 documentary film directed by Amos Gitai that premiered at the Venice Film Festival.

The film relates the story of Gitai's father, Munio Weinraub (1909-1970), an eminent Israeli architect. Weinraub was a student at the Bauhaus design and architecture school in the city of Dessau when Hitler closed the school in 1933. In May 1933, Weinraub was accused of "treason against the German people", sent to prison and later expelled from Germany. The film traces Munio's route from Poland to Germany, from Switzerland to Palestine.

Gitai has written that his film "is a voyage searching for the relationships between a father and his son, architecture and movies, the history of a journey and intimate memories. Like in my movie Carmel, based on my mother, Efratia's, letters, there is no chronological sequence of events. It is not a reconstituted biography, but a mosaic. The story comes together piece by piece, as a poetical association of pictures, faces, voyages, real architecture and snippets of fiction."^[1]