At Home - Far Away From Home

"Home is where one feels at home," says the architect Oscar Roemer, one of the three main characters of the film. Fleeing Germany from the Nazis, they come to Mexico, the only country, which was willing to accept them. After overcoming the first cultural shock, a life long struggle - with the reminiscences of home that was left behind in Vienna - began. Ruth Deusch as an ethnologist explores the natives of Mexico (who she is not). Bruno Schwebel paints the Mexican landscape that impressed him so much at his arrival. His escape, his arrival in a strange and unknown world dominates his short stories. Oscar Roemer picks up Aztecan architecture as a central theme in his houses. As the youngest of the three he believes most in the myth of an ideal Vienna. A few weeks before shooting he visited his old home country for the first time: "There I started yearning to die in Vienna, like the animals return to their place of birth to die."