Deutschland bleiche Mutter

Deutschland bleiche Mutter (1980)

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Summary: Germany 1939. Hans and Lene marry the day before the war breaks out, and Hans is sent to the Eastern front. During a boming 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. (imdb)

AKA: Germany, Pale Mother

Genre: Drama

Country: West Germany

Directed By: Helma Sanders-Brahms

Written By: Helma Sanders-Brahms

Starring: Eva Mattes, Ernst Jacobi, Elisabeth Stepanek, Angelika Thomas, Rainer Friedrichsen, Gisela Stein

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TCI	User	Score
na	Shoran	65	T₅
Depressingly bleak and hopeless - but I'm sure that was the effect Sanders-Brahms was going for...
na	m4th3u5	79	T₅
na	soliloquist	76	T₅
na	imdb	82	T₁₀
na	FitFortDanga	55	T₂
Dull and familiar, loaded with incidents of trauma that feel contrived and moments of forced poignancy. Such as when Mattes tells her daughter a Grimm tale while exploring the ruins of a crematorium. One of the characters in the tale says "you're in the house of a murderer" while they linger beside the OVENS! O, how meaningful! The film is just barely engaging enough to slog through it, and from a technical standpoint I have no complaints, but it's a rather dreary and unfulfilling experience.