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Cast
No credited cast is listed for this film.
Credits
Written by: Barbara Frankenstein 
Volker Koepp
Editing: Beatrice Babin
Plot
In early 1945, the mother Elisabeth Paetzold flees from the Red Army from West Prussia towards the west with the two oldest of her four sons. Taking all the children at the same time seems too dangerous to her, so she leaves her two youngest in the hope of catching them up later, in the care of grandparents.
Sinekatalog’s take
A mother flees the advancing Red Army in 1945, taking only her two eldest sons and leaving the youngest with grandparents. The documentary lets personal memory carry the weight of a historic displacement. A sober, deeply humane watch for readers of wartime family history.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 7.1 / 10 (38 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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