Da habt ihr mein Leben - Marieluise, Kind von Golzow
β 8 Β· 1997 Β· 141m Β· Documentary
The different life paths of former girlfriends from Catholic and Protestant homes respectively - one a draftswoman, the other a chemical laboratory technician - in two interrelated films, in which love, like the demands and attitudes to life in the change of its foundations in the process of the decline of the GDR and its accession to the Federal Republic of Germany, play a special role.
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