My Mother, a War and Me

War/Biography, Germany 2014

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December 1942. A snowfield behind the Soviet lines in WW II. This is where my Ukrainian mother gave birth to me. She was a nurse in the Red Army back then. She never talked about the war. ”Leave me alone”, she used to say. Two years before she died, however, we began to talk in front of the camera. I took this footage when I went back to Ukraine, along with many questions. What was it like to be a young woman, then mother, in the Soviet Army?
78 min
HD
Starting at 12
Audio language:
GermanRussian
Subtitles:
German

Awards

Berlinale 2014 Heiner-Carow-Award

More information

Producer:

Johann Feindt

Original language:

German

Format:

16:9 HD, Color

Age rating:

Starting at 12

Audio language:

GermanRussian

Subtitles:

German