In the summer of 2014, Peter Germundsson and Paul Molin went on a journey through Europe. Most of the journey went through the old Roman provinces of Gallia Belgica, Germania Inferior, Raetia and Noricum. Once the Roman Culture flourished here and the Roman heritage put its hallmark on the area for centuries after the fall of the Western Roman Empire. Many of the cities and camps founded by the Romans still exist, and bear modern names. The traces of Rome are still visible. Out of the ruins of the Roman Empire would eventually modern Germany emerge, a nation which throughout its comparatively short existence more than once has been torn apart by devastating wars. Carpet bombers have reduced centuries-old cities to rubble and millions of people have lost their lives at an early age. Now it's been a long time since any war devastated Europe but the tide of history can still be felt. About this and much else is the film you're about to see: Römerstrasse. A film about the history of Europe and the search for it in a highly altered world.
Our trip starts in Sweden and goes down to the European continent to the Hermannsdenkmal, a monument erected to commemorate the battle of the Teutoburg forest in the year 9 A.D. Then we travel along the river Rhine, which marked the border between the Roman Empire and the unconquered Germania. Via Alps, Weissbier and Leberknödel we finally end up in a victorious Berlin in the summer of 2014.
At the same time it is a trip through the modern German-speaking Europe with its people, culture, traffic and lack of parking lots.
Swedish Audio English subtitles. Translation written by Peter Germundsson.