Der Heimwehträger

The film portrait follows the memories of the exile writer Fritz Kalmar (1911-2008) from his early childhood up to the present of the film recordings. The real themes are Kalmar’s homesickness for the city from which he was driven out because of his Jewish background, his bitter résumé of two half-homelands – Austria and Uruguay- and the impossibility of joining them into a whole, his “true” patriotism (in contrast to the aggrieved patriotism of those enticed), and his sense of having lived wrongly, due to his own fault as well as the social circumstances, and renouncing his artistic bent for far too long.