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...
00:03:09 Yes, it's all in Argentina.
00:08:01 I often talk to Jewish people
00:13:34 For 2 years Dr. Vera Bent has been constructing a Jewish museum.
00:17:47 Then I thought, "Why be embarrassed?"
00:20:27 ...how to say that I got a letter...
00:22:37 ...anti-Semitism is harder to bear.
00:25:09 That's hard to define.
00:28:04 ...a lamb's bone as sacrifice...
00:34:45 ...because my parents said them in German...
00:39:21 At first I understood nothing
00:42:50 Can I taste it?
00:45:58 Are you often afraid because...
00:49:27 Fondest love-your Grandma."
00:52:18 When we got near the sweets she'd play louder.
00:55:27 ...multi-lingual warnings.
00:57:33 And my past has something to do with the history of the Jews.
01:00:47 Here used to stand a synagogue.
01:03:48 Where are you from, Sarah?
01:06:17 You feel Jewish, then?
01:08:43 I often feel happy here.
01:11:00 No questions, and no solutions.
01:17:34 It would be boring always to live in the same place.
01:20:22 Your children's generation...
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed790
Dialogue density9.0 lines / min
First line00:00:51
Final line01:20:22
Production Record
DirectorJeanine Meerapfel
LanguageGerman
IMDb votes7