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Deutschland, bleiche Mutter

Helma Sanders-Brahms
1980 Germany 123 minutes German

In Germany of the 1930s, Hans and Lene get married. War breaks out. While her husband is away on the front, Lene gives birth to a baby girl, Anna. Both of them find themselves facing fear, violence and deprivation. On Hans’ return, the couple breaks up, Germany is reduced to ruins. The fate of a young German woman caught up in the turmoil of History.

Helma Sanders-Brahms

Réalisatrice allemande, née en 1940 à Emden.
Etudes de littérature, d’art dramatique et de mise en scène théatrale.
Speakerine à la WDR.

Production :
Literarische Colloquium Berlin; Helma Sanders Filmproduktion
Editing :
Elfie Tillack; Uta Periginelli
Sound :
Gunther Kortwich
Photography :
Jürgen Jürges

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