Loretta Walz Videoproduktion

Germany 2011, 88 min
by Loretta Walz

Eight men and women remember their childhood in the shadow of the GULAG. They were born in the Soviet Union, their parents were persecuted or killed by their own comrades during Stalin's ethnic cleansing. German communists emigrate to the Soviet Union in the 1930s. Their children who born later in the Soviet Union are supposed to be raised as faithful socialists. During Stalin's ethnic cleansing, mothers, fathers, and sometimes even both parents are arrested and deported to GULAG camps. Some