Flying Home
2011 · IMDB 5.5 · 14 VOTES · DIR. Tobias Wyss
Overview
In 1939, Walter Otto Wyss emigrated to the USA after a tragic car accident. There he developed a revolutionary hybrid automobile that was never produced. After a love affair with an African-American dancer in Los Angeles he lived in Tokyo at the end of the 1950s as a recluse and learned Japanese. He spent the last 30 years of his life alone on Hawaii. Despite many opportunities to fulfil his dreams of freedom, success and security, he can never quite set himself free from Switzerland, his mother and his self-reproach and misses the chance to find happiness. Walter's nephew, director Tobias Wyss, tells the story of his uncle in a personal manner, making use of moving photographs and videos from the family archive. The Zurich director reconstructs the contradictory biography of his uncle in seven episodes.
Dialogue Timeline — 190 lines
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00:46:55 50 years later, the journalist.
00:48:14 Masayuki recorded for me the radio play “Snow Country"
00:49:07 who keep meeting in a ryokan, surrounded by snow
00:50:10 Dear Mami, I don't have time for anything anymore
00:50:36 For a long time, I thought Uncle Walter had been all alone in Japan -
00:51:03 Should I run away from home?
00:51:34 Thank you for being so kind to me.
00:52:03 Mr. Walter was an admirable man.
00:52:37 but because he said
00:53:03 and taught English occasionally.
00:53:33 they must get along very well.
00:54:10 Why did you come?
00:54:42 Liar. I waited the whole time.
00:55:20 We researched a lot, and discovered many women and girlfriends.
00:56:10 For the first time in his life, he spoke up against his mother.
00:56:48 I have to try not to lose my belief in you and the way you brought me up
00:57:24 and stay until your 100th birthday.
00:58:15 I would see my Uncle in America for the first time!
01:00:27 who lived at his brokerage like in a big family.
01:06:00 but also by my interest, that his money shouldn't be lost.
01:07:15 But he didn't let me get any closer.
01:09:57 he had shoved all letters and bills under the mattress, until it collapsed under him.
01:13:45 It would be better, then you can see it.
01:15:32 After his death, I made inquiries at several storage companies