• Greta's Birth

    Greta's Birth



  • Greta's Birth

    Greta's Birth



  • Greta's Birth

    Greta's Birth



  • Greta's Birth

    Greta's Birth



Greta's Birth

a film by Katja Baumgarten

Greta's Birth

Germany | 2023 | 97:00 min

Original Title:
GRETAS GEBURT

Content Categories

Documentary
Synopsis
A child died at birth. Four years later, in August 2012, her midwife and doctor was on trial, charged with manslaughter.
On almost all of the 59 days of the proceedings, I sat in the courtroom and observed the jury trial against the colleague. In a midwifery journal, I continuously reported in detail on the trial, which lasted more than two years.
What happened in the courtroom was a real-life tragedy, that captivated me with all its facets: The emotional content, the stories of the people involved, who had to reveal a lot of intimate information in public, the professional and social issues.
In October 2014, the doctor and midwife was found guilty of manslaughter, sentenced to six and a half years in prison and banned from practicing her profession for life, although many questions remained unanswered about the cause of the baby’s death. After serving four and a half years, she is released from prison on probation. For her, nothing is as it was before.
The verdict is unprecedented in Germany in connection with an unfortunate outcome of a birth.
Festivals/Awards
2023
38 DOK.fest Munich – nominated VFF Documentary Film Production Award
Cast and Crew
  • Director Katja Baumgarten
  • Producer Katja Baumgarten (Dokumentarfilm | viktoria11.de)
  • Director of Photography Gisela Tuchtenhagen, Katja Baumgarten
  • Sound Katja Baumgarten
  • Digital Colorist Lukas Brückner (novofilm)
Original Languages

German

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