Germany Pale Mother

2h 31m
Drama
6.5

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.

Cast

Eva Mattes
Helene
Ernst Jacobi
Hans
Elisabeth Stepanek
Hanne
Angelika Thomas
Lydia
Rainer Friedrichsen
Ulrich
Fritz Lichtenhahn
Onkel Bertrand

Crew

Bertolt Brecht
Poem
Helma Sanders-Brahms
Director, Writer, Producer
Uta Periginelli
Editor
Elfie Tillack
Editor
Jürgen Jürges
Director of Photography
Ursula Ludwig
Executive Producer
Walter Höllerer
Producer
Volker Canaris
Producer
Götz Heymann
Production Design
Janken Janssen
Costume Design
Berthold Sack
Makeup Artist
Barbara Telg-Tebbe
Makeup Artist
Jürgen Knieper
Original Music Composer
Renée Gundelach
Consulting Producer
Fritz Poppenberg
Unit Production Manager

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