Germany, Pale Mother

MOVIE DESCRIPTION:

Director Helma Sanders-Brahms reached back into her own wartime childhood for her best known film, Germany Pale Mother (Deutschland bleiche Mutter). The film is based on the life of Sanders-Brahms' mother, fictionalized in the person of Eva Mattes. Ms. Mattes marries Nazi soldier Ernst Jacobi, remaining loyal to her largely absent husband through the fall of Germany and the grim postwar era. The couple has a daughter, for whom the aggressively independent Mattes tries to provide even as those around her starve to death. Originally released in 1980 Germany Pale Mother received its general American release four years later. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

DVD FEATURES:

• Number of Discs: 1
• Audio: Dolby Digital Stereo
• Screen: Color
• Subtitle: Eng

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

• Cast:

  
       Eva Mattes - Lene
       Ernst Jacobi - Hans
       Elisabeth Stepanek - Hanne
       Angelika Thomas - Lydia
       Rainer Friedrichsen - Ulrich
       Gisela Stein - Aunt Imchen
       Fritz Lichtenhahn - Uncle Bertrand
       Anna Sanders - Anna

• Director:

  Helma Sanders-Brahms

• Producer:

  Ursula Ludwig, Helma Sanders-Brahms

• Screenwriter:

  Helma Sanders-Brahms

• Cinematographer:

  Jürgen Jürges

• Composer (Music Score):

  Jürgen Knieper

• Editor:

  Elfie Tillack, Uta Periginelli

• Set Designer:

  Götz Heymann