In the Country of My Parents
1981 · 88 MIN · IMDB 6.5 · 7 VOTES · DIR. Jeanine Meerapfel
Overview
""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.
Dialogue Timeline — 790 lines
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00:00:51 The Eskimos do that, too...
00:03:11 Everything? - Yes.
00:08:08 ...because a camping site adjoins a Jewish cemetery.
00:13:46 Some of the stones from the Ephraim palace...
00:18:19 You don't want to lead someone...
00:20:54 ...and made me more Jewish than I ever felt before.
00:23:07 "When you enter a mass grave you have two alternatives.
00:25:50 No, I can't.
00:29:31 ...as a Jew to the Germans.
00:35:42 If you show feelings, you are vulnerable.
00:40:23 My grammar's not too good
00:44:19 He opted for Germany. He's learnt German at school.
00:48:21 I know your words came from the heart.
00:50:45 But why?
00:54:19 If you want to.
00:56:36 It is impossible to belong here.
00:58:56 ...or red-heads or foreigners...
01:02:46 ...where people lean out of the windows...
01:05:40 The persecution in the 3rd. Reich was discussed.
01:08:06 ...but I can't make contact with the people there.
01:10:35 I remember the first evening...
01:17:10 Do you like being in Berlin? Is it your home?
01:19:58 I want to retain it. I'm not German.
90:00:00 before the deportations began.
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed790
Dialogue density9.0 lines / min
First line00:00:51
Final line90:00:00
Production Record
DirectorJeanine Meerapfel
LanguageGerman
IMDb votes7