Motherless Morning
The grandmother having died, mother and daughter reunite after years and for the first time talk about the daughter’s early childhood in a weekday home. The GDR made “equal rights” for women possible by establishing weekday homes where children from the age of six weeks until six years were looked after. This chapter of GDR history has never been dealt with. This film is intended to be a beginning.
Cast
- FRAU SCHUHMANN
- Franziska Kleinert
- Anja
- Ines Schiller
Motherless Morning
Amina Gusner
- Fiction
- Production Country / Year
- Germany 2022
- Language
- de. OF mit en. UT
- Format
- DCP, Black & white, 51min
1.33:1, Stereo PCM
- Original Title
- Wenn Mutti früh zur Arbeit geht
Director & Crew
Amina Gusner
Born in 1965 in Moscow/USSR. Studied at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts. Worked at the Theater and Philharmonie Gera/Altenburg. Active as an actress, director, writer, and producer of audio plays.
Filmography
2022 WENN MUTTI FRÜH ZUR ARBEIT GEHT, Spielfilm HOF 2022
“It is important to me to work through this chapter of East German history. It's about understanding where we come from and who we are today. It's about voices that have never been heard before. It's about the victims of the GDR weekday homes and acknowledgment of what happened to them.”
Amina Gusner
- Director of Photography
- Maximilian Miller
- Costume Designer
- Inken Gusner
- Sound
- Khan of Finnland
- Adel Gamehdar
- Producer
- Nina Kronjäger