Films by Deborah Jeromin

Germany 2020, 40 min
by Deborah Jeromin

Mulberry hedges can still be found in a garden allotment in Leipzig today. They were planted for the silk production of the Nazis in the late 1930ies. An educational film about silk culture was also produced in Leipzig at the same time.The film riven threads follows the traces from the garden allotment and the determination of the silkworms to the touristic island Crete. Where rarely planes were flying, 10.000 paratroopers jumped in only one week onto the barren Island in May 1941. Cretan women,