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Learning to Milk a Cow

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.

Keywords

  • #Solidarity with Ukraine
  • Label: docfilm42
  • Politics: Human Rights
  • Topic: No war!
  • Topic: Oral History
  • world war II
  • family
  • history
  • immigration
  • national socialism
  • war
  • women

Actors

  • Katherine Kowaltchuk
  • Juliana Saragosa
  • Nadia Saragosa

Director

  • Juliana Saragosa

Documentary


1h 4min


16+

EN


DE

Canada
Germany
2016
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.

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.

Cast & Crew

juliana-saragosa

Director

Juliana Saragosa

Cast

Katherine Kowaltchuk

Cast

Juliana Saragosa

Cast

Nadia Saragosa