(Christian
Schwochow/2013/Germany)
A
middling drama about a single mother who defects to West Berlin in
the 70’s with her son and gets detained in refugee accommodation
and subjected to questioning about her sons father who is suspected
of being a spy. Interesting to note the conditions of detainment
compared to today’s refugee camps and hard to sympathise with those
in the film given the relative luxury. A good performance in the main
role by Jördis Triebel but even though the story hits the right
notes about their plight, the eventual theme of not judging a book by
its cover washes out into the final scenes with a somewhat weak
sentimentality rather than a resonant emotional twang. Not a bad film
but nothing extraordinary either.
(2.5/5)
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