When the filmmaker's grandmother was 19, she was taken from Soviet Ukraine to Germany to work on a Bavarian farm under National Socialism. She had the luck and perseverance to survive hardships of the forced famine in her homeland and forced labour in the new one. The stories of her everyday life - learning how to milk a cow, falling in love - are interspersed with three generations of reflections on politics, longing, feelings of displacement and loss. Hand-processed black & white film, colour film, photographs and official documents create a montage of different perspectives.
At the age of 19, Raja was deported to Nazi Germany and was forced to do labor on a Bavarian farm. This documentary is her story.
When the filmmaker's grandmother was 19, she was taken from Soviet Ukraine to Germany to work on a Bavarian farm under National Socialism.
She had the luck and perseverance to survive hardships of the forced famine in her homeland and forced labour in the new one.
The stories of her everyday life - learning how to milk a cow, falling in love - are interspersed with three generations of reflections on politics, longing, feelings of displacement and loss. Hand-processed black & white film, colour film, photographs and official documents create a montage of different perspectives.
Director
Juliana Saragosa
Cast
Katherine Kowaltchuk
Cast
Juliana Saragosa
Cast
Nadia Saragosa