Films by Marc Witt

Germany 1999
by Helmut Schulzeck

"Once upon a time, that's how fairy tales begin - these were sometimes my mother's closing words when she was telling us children about her youth in Nidden, and what she meant was that it was over. How does a person recall things if she is suddenly obliged to leave her home when still young, and notpermitted to return for fifty years, and precisely what does she recall? Does she feel homesick for her youth? The film gives very personal answers to these questions, and yet they may be applicable t