Fatherland

Grief is usually a reaction to the loss of a beloved person or of some abstract idea which stands for this person, such as fatherland, freedom, ideals." writes Sigmund Freud in his leading work "Grief and Melancholy". This definition and the account by Hannah Ahrendt of the behaviour of German intellectuals in 1933 were the basis for the Jewish filmmaker Nurith Aviv to talk with her 4 German friends about fatherland and loss. In the background we see the train ride through Berlin, the city of the filmmaker's ancestors.