Im Land meiner Eltern

Im Land meiner Eltern

88 mins | Documentary | Oct. 7, 1981

"Had it not been for Hitler, I would have been born a German-Jewish child, more German than Jewish, in a small village in the South of Germany. But as it happened, I was born in Argentina, my mothertongue is Spanish. I came to Germany 17 years ago." It is here, where author and director Jeanine Meerapfel starts searching for her own Jewish identity, being confronted time and time again with Federal Republic reality.

Im Land meiner Eltern

88 mins | Documentary | Oct. 7, 1981

Im Land meiner Eltern
"Had it not been for Hitler, I would have been born a German-Jewish child, more German than Jewish, in a small village in the South of Germany. But as it happened, I was born in Argentina, my mothertongue is Spanish. I came to Germany 17 years ago." It is here, where author and director Jeanine Meerapfel starts searching for her own Jewish identity, being confronted time and time again with Federal Republic reality.
Producers Westdeutscher Rundfunk
Original title Im Land meiner Eltern
Directors Jeanine Meerapfel
Writers Jeanine Meerapfel

Cast

Jeanine Meerapfel

as Herself

Luc Bondy

as Himself

Eva Ebner

as Herself

Jakob Lichtmann

as Himself