Director - Wolfgang Flechsenhaar
Genre -
Duration - 2 minutes 58 seconds
Country - Germany
Language - English
Year - 2021
SYNOPSIS : At the time of National Socialism, around 500,000 persecuted and disenfranchised people emigrated from Germany and Austria. Only about 30,000 returned after 1945. Because of the drastic social changes in their home countries, for many, it was a return home to a foreign land.
Meanwhile, a sometimes very polemical and irreconcilable debate broke out between exiles and those who had spent the years from 1933 to 1945 in inner emigration.
Thomas Mann, a Literature Nobel Prize laureate living in the United States at the time, caused a furor when he firmly ruled out a return to Germany. Moreover, he stated: "I confess that I am afraid of the German ruins - the stony and the human ones."
Frank Thiess, a representative of the so-called Inner Emigration, on the other hand, considers the experience of "those who watched the German tragedy from the boxes and parterres of foreign countries" to be of secondary importance.
DMOFF AWARD -
Official Selection April 2021
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