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
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
Director
Juliana Saragosa