Da habt ihr mein Leben : Marieluise, Kind von Golzow

For more than thirty years, the Junges’ camera follows the life of Marieluise, one “destiny” among the others which they filmed in the small town of Golzow in East Germany. This film fills in many silences and includes many sequences that were impossible to show under the ex-GDR régime. The heroine, now aged 42, is asked to review her life starting with her childhood and to comment on how she has changed with the different events she has lived through. The little schoolgirl from Golzow, the eldest of a family of six children, was brought up in the Protestant religion which her father openly practised in defiance of the communist system. Despite her dreams of becoming a nurse, she unenthusiastically took up the job of laboratory assistant in Frankfurt-on-Oder. After several love affairs, she married Steffen, at the time a GDR army officer. Today, after a few years of upheaval and uncertainty following the reunification, the couple has settled with their two daughters in West Germany.