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International Festival of Audiovisual Programs
FIPA 2006 - Out of competition Aspects of European Production
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Aspects of European Production

Shalom Germania

For centuries, Germany was a mother to the Jews, their stepmother and unfortunately—their executioner. It would seem that after the Holocaust, Jews would never want to live in this country again. But they are coming back. The well-known director Herz Frank and his co-author Grigory Manyuk, reflect in their own way upon the meaning and sense of these historical metamorphoses. This documentary essay focuses on the destinies of immigrants from former USSR. A painter from Moscow who dreams of living half a year in Berlin and half in Jerusalem; a surgeon from Ukraine and his war-trophy piano; a student from St Petersburg, whose ancestors originated in Germany; and a vice-admiral, hero of the Soviet Union, still living in the past. Did the new Germany really become again a motherland for the Jews or will it remain only a temporary place of residence in their eternal wanderings?
Germany - 2004 - 52 mn - DV Cam - Colour
Director
Herz Frank, Grigory Manyuk
Camera
Semion Fridland, Grigory Manyuk, Ilia Podgaetski
Sound
Yürgen Schlag, Aivars Riekstins
Editing
Sergei Usanov, Heiko Schlag
Music
Alex Yacobowitz

Production
Halbtotal filmproduktion,
Gaugasse 32,
65203 Wiesbaden, Allemagne
Tél : +49 611 801 569
Fax : +49 611 844 098
E-mail : info@halbtotalfilm.de

Co-Production
Magri Filmproduction

Sales
Magri Filmproduction,
Martin Opitz 19,
13357 Berlin, Allemagne
Tél : +49 30 39876769
Fax : +49 30 39876769
E-mail : grigman@gmx.de