Films by Ullabritt Horn

Germany 2002
by Ullabritt Horn

Berlin, China, Ukraine…and no return A filmic journey with Anton Tchen, aka Han Sen ‘I entered the empty classroom. Way at the back sat a small boy, who was trying to copy Chinese characters with a pen and a brush. He couldn’t do it, and tears of frustration ran off his face and smeared the ink…’ Anton Tchen, born 1925 in Berlin, was a boy of his era: he played in the street, fought with other boys and watched the Reichstag burn when he was eight years old…But the children he played with pulle