Deutschland, bleiche Mutter

Germany Pale Mother

  • Helma Sanders-Brahms
  • 1980
  • Germany
  • 123 minutes
  • German
  • © Helma Sander Filmproduktion
    © Helma Sander Filmproduktion
  • © Helma Sander Filmproduktion
    © Helma Sander Filmproduktion

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.

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