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Bye Bye America
Auf Wiedersehen AmerikaStory
Bye Bye America is the story of an unusual journey. Isaak, his friend Moshe and Moshe’s wife, Genovefa, leave New York and set off for Poland. The three of them are all in the same boat, get stranded in Germany, celebrate Christmas in Berlin and finally end up in Poland after all. But everything’s different there. Isaak finds a wife and Genovefa gets her own flat. At the end, everybody’s happy for a moment: some in Gdansk, some in Brighton Beach.
Jan Schütte über Auf Wiedersehen Amerika:
While walking along the boardwalk in Brighton Beach, I met some émigrés. They spoke a mish-mash of Yiddish, Polish and German. We talked to a lot of people and the story we depict emerged out of these many life-stories, real experiences and unreal dreams. Sometimes life seems to be a good Jewish joke. The main figures have an incredible sense of humour that spares no-one, least of all themselves. The film depicts characters whose fate is to search for a homeland, with no great fuss about it but with laconic humour and an often fairy-tale ambience.
