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    Germany,Pale Mother

    Helma Sanders-Brahms 1979 Germany color 123min German DCP
    A normal love story - except that it takes place during the Nazi era and into the 50s about a man, a woman, and a child. He is a soldier in the German army. She has to endure the bombings, rape and the privations of post-war years to build up her marriage again - only to break down in the end, like the whole brittle edifice of family bliss for which all three have waited for so long.

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    Helma Sanders-Brahms

    Helma Sanders-Brahms was born in Emden in 1940.She studied Acting,German and English and worked as a teacher.She was an intern on productions by Corbucci and Pasolini and made her first film,Angelika Urban,Salesgirl,Engaged,in 1970.Her films have received numerous national and international awards such as the German Film Award for Heinrich and Unter dem Pflaster ist der Strand the Grand Prix of Montreal for Laputa in 1986.She was made a "Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres"by French culture minister Jack Lang in 1991.

    Helma Sanders-Brahms

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