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Auf Wiedersehen Amerika

1994

Jan Schütte

1994·GermanyGermanyPolandPoland
Award tierBronze

"Bye Bye America" is the story of an unusual journey, generated from discussions director Jan Schütte had with émigrés he met while walking along the boardwalk in Brighton Beach. 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. 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...

Cast

Aleksander Bardini·Christa Berndl·Ya'ackov Bodo·Jeffrey Feingold

Producers

Lisa Bruce·Otto Grokenberger·Martin Hagemann·Ted Hope·W. Wilder Knight II

Languages

GermanyGermanPolandPolishyidUnited KingdomEnglish

Major Awards

0 wins · 1 nomination

Nominations (1)

Festival Grand Prize

Cannes Film Festival (1994)

Directors' Fortnight

Jan Schütte