Learning to Milk a Cow

2016 "To Bavaria and back in search of heritage lost."
10| 1h4m| NA| en| More Info
Released: 01 January 2016 Released
Producted By: Juliana Saragosa
Country: Germany
Budget: 0
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Official Website: https://jsaragosa.de/lmc/
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A daring documentary delving into the experiences of a Ukrainian forced labourer in Germany during World War II, exploring themes of love, loss, and profound longing. 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 the 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, and 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. The hand-touch aesthetic combines with the acousmatic effect of disembodied voices, in this deeply intimate portrait obscured by memory loss, mistranslation, fear and trauma.

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Juli Saragosa

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Konterr Brilliant and touching
Spoonixel Amateur movie with Big budget
Senteur As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.
Claire Dunne One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.