DEUTSCHLAND BLEICHE MUTTER
synopsis
Germany 1939. Hans and Lene marry the day before the war breaks out, and Hans is sent to the Eastern front. During a bombing raid their daughter Anna is born. The house is destroyed and Lene and Anna moves in with relatives in Berlin. Hans survives the war but he is not the same person as in 1939, and he and Lene find it difficult to live together again.
original title: | Deutschland bleiche Mutter |
country: | Germany |
year: | 1980 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Helma Sanders-Brahms |
film run: | 123' |
release date: | DE 20/02/1980, FR 15/04/1981, SE 06/11/1981, FI 07/05/1982, PT 03/12/1985, UK 14/10/2014 |
screenplay: | Helma Sanders-Brahms |
cast: | Eva Mattes, Ernst Jacobi, Elisabeth Stepanek |
cinematography by: | Jürgen Jürges |
film editing: | Uta Periginelli, Elfie Tillack |
art director: | Götz Heymann |
costumes designer: | Janken Janssen |
producer: | Volker Canaris, Walter Höllerer, Helma Sanders-Brahms |
executive producer: | Ursula Ludwig |