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?