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Release Date:
November 8, 1988
Original Title:
Und die Sehnsucht bleibt ...
Genres:
Documentary
Production Companies:
DEFA-Studio für Wochenschau und Dokumentarfilme
ZDF
Production Countries:
East Germany | Germany
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 61
In three parts, the documentary takes a look at the lives of three working mothers in East Berlin. Carola is a nude model and cleaner, Sabine is a singer and Heike is a secretary. All the women have to bring up their children alone, some of them abandoned by their husbands, some of them having consciously broken out of the housewife existence. Their self-determination is repeatedly thwarted by a repressive society. Director Petra Tschörner captures the daily struggle for survival of these women, who also have their say to explain their sometimes precarious situation from their own perspective.
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