Sound Of Heimat - Germany Sings 2012

What happens when a saxophonist from New Zealand embarks on a search for the roots and living traditions of German folk music? In this exuberant documentary, Kiwi horn blower Hayden Chisholm meets musicians and singers young and old, traditional and modern, eccentric and ultra-serious, all of whom are united by their passion for music that embodies the quintessential German notion of Heimat (homeland). In the course of his travels, Hayden encounters not only the Germany that embraces the sounds of Heimat with a deep sense of national pride, but also the Germany that dismisses such music and its attendant emotions as irrelevant nostalgia.