My Mother, a War and Me
20141h 18m6.0
Documentary
- Runtime
- 1h 18m
- Genre
- Documentary
- Origin
- Germany
About
1942, and a spectacular wartime birth in the depths of winter: a young russian nurse unexpectedly goes into labour and, all alone and in freezing temperatures, gives birth to her daughter Tamara in a field on the banks of the Volga. The most personal film to date from co-directors Tamara Trampe and Johann Feindt is dedicated to Tamara's own family history. The search for her unknown father who, as a russian officer, made the young nurse pregnant, is complicated by the fact that her mother has never come to terms with her wartime trauma and worn family photos only seem to show happy-go-lucky life before the war. But the director won't give up so easily and, through a mixture of personal childhood recollections and conversations with relatives and former nurses who were on the front in Ukraine, she puts together the pieces of the puzzle.
Where to watch
Not available to stream in United States yet. It is in Germany, France.
Details
- Director
- Tamara Trampe, Johann Feindt
- Writing
- Johann Feindt, Tamara Trampe
- Status
- Released
- Released
- Feb 9, 2014
- Studio
- ZDF
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