Germany Pale Mother

IMDb link: 0080616
IMDb rating: 7.2 (908 votes)
Genres: Drama, War, History
Director: Helma Sanders-Brahms
Cast: Eva Mattes, Ernst Jacobi, Elisabeth Stepanek, Angelika Thomas and others

Release date: 26 Sep 1980
Release year: 1980
Runtime: 152 minutes
Country: West Germany
Keywords: new german cinema, motherhood, rubble, post world war two, drunkenness, post world war two germany, world war two in germany, german woman, nazi germany, reference to bertolt brecht

Plot:

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.

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