France's German Children

Film Info

2021 | 52 min. Director: Anja Unger

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PRODUCTION
Un film à la Patte | Agnès Trintzius
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France's German Children

44min or 52min original German, French version others on request

Synopsis

Germany, after 1945: thousands of 'occupation babies' are born. Their mothers are German, their farthers from one of the occupation armies. British, Americans and Russians regard these children as a private matter - but not the French. They see a 'national treasure' to be brought home for adoption - an ambitious but scandalous project to stimulate France's demographic development. Robbed of their German identity, many adoptive children still know little about their roots.
'Enfants d'État' accompanies two women trying to reconstruct the first years of their lives in Germany.