A mother-daughter relationship drama revolving around the past, origins and a fundamental lie.
Rena is a family therapist; she is married with two grown-up sons. She travels with her elderly mother Edith to Norway, the land where she was born in 1943 in a “Lebensborn Home”, part of the Nazi programme to raise members of the master race. Rena wants to discover the truth about her origins at last, and to find out how involved her mother was in Nazi politics. A sense of disquiet about her own identity has accompanied Rena for as long as she remembers and more and more becomes a burden on her relationship with her husband Jan and the boys. But Edith refuses to provide any answers to her daughter's questions. Back in Munich, a mysterious Herr Friedrich appears, claiming that he is also a “Lebensborn child”. He wants Edith to help them discover his true identity at last, but she also refuses to provide him with any information. In fact, over decades Edith has created a sophisticated structure of lies, suppression and denial, and it’s only now with being 60-years-old that Rena insists on her mother to finally tell the truth.
Thekla Carola Wied, Kyra Mladeck, Rüdiger Vogler, Michael Altmann, Florian Brückner, Robert Dölle, Veronika von Quast u.v.a.
Regie
Dagmar Hirtz
Drehbuch
Hannah Hollinger nach Motiven der Autobiografie
Kamera
Axel Block
Schnitt
Nicola Undritz
Ton
Andreas Mücke-Niesytka
Szenenbild
Michael Köning
Licht
Reinhold Maul
ProducerIn
Susanne Ottersbach-Flimm
ProduzentIn
Regina Ziegler
Redaktion
Dr. Barbara Buhl, WDR
Sender
ARD