Germany Pale Mother

Germany Pale Mother

122 mins | Drama | Sept. 26, 1980

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.

Germany Pale Mother

122 mins | Drama | Sept. 26, 1980

Germany Pale Mother
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.
IMDb rating 7.2
Producers Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Helma Sanders-Brahms Filmproduktion, Literarisches Colloquium
Original title Deutschland bleiche Mutter
Directors Helma Sanders-Brahms
Writers Helma Sanders-Brahms

Cast

Eva Mattes

as Helene

Ernst Jacobi

as Hans

Angelika Thomas

as Lydia

Fritz Lichtenhahn

as Onkel Bertrand