Germany Pale Mother (1980)

Name: Germany Pale Mother
Director: Helma Sanders-Brahms
Released: 1980-09-26
Rating: 6.6
Cast: Eva Mattes, Ernst Jacobi, Elisabeth Stepanek, Angelika Thomas, Rainer Friedrichsen

Drama

151 min

Plot Summary

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.