In the country of my parents

In the most subjective way, like a diarist, Jeanine Meerapfel, who lives in Berlin, tries in her film to define her relationship to the country form which her Jewish parents were forced to emigrate. Talking to the emigrant Jewess, Lea Fleischmann, in a deliberate attempt to define her situation, Meerapfel says “I don’t say this is not my country. I say this was the country of my parents and is also my country.” The result of a search through the confusion of her identity; found in pictures and discussions with friends in Berlin and those involved. This montage of archive material, personal memories, observations and experiences is a personal answer to the question of what it means to be a Jew in Germany today.