Black Pete β No, You're It
1980 Β· 48m Β· Drama Β· Documentary
A drama-documentary film about the fatal effect of poor living conditions on health β the so-called "social inheritance." The principal characters in the film are two fourteen or fifteen-year-old children, Carl and Hanne. Covering a hundred-year period and drawing on case stories recorded by actual hospital staff, the film illustrates a number of variations of "the same old story."
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