FAMILY LIFE

by Irina Heckmann
  • 2017 Irina Heckmann
  • 2017 Irina Heckmann
  • 2017 Irina Heckmann

    Synopsis

    Three Generations tell about their feelings, mainly women, the men act in the background. All of them arrived to Germany with their bag of experiences, their own past and frustrations. The bags are being unpacked. The family sticks together.
    The search for a homeland here and there. Siberia was a place where many were deported to.
    The bag of experience of the grandmother as a German in Russia – the labour camp and hunger have marked her face. The mother works as a cleaner in a gym, the father helps farmers, in the past he used to be an academic.
    Everyday life drags on through the film and is not always easy to manage. Often, the family is like any other, at Christmas there are family meals and presents. Everyone has their own opinion and has their own life to live.Sofia Independent Filmfestival, Duisburger Filmwoche, Stranger Than Fiction Dokumentarfilmfest