Vatersland

An emotional journey back to the 50s and 60s Through photos and film footage from her childhood the 48yearold filmmaker Marie remembers growing up in bourgeois postwar Germany Marie is once again confronted with the early death of her mother and the excessive demands of her conservative father He has no understanding for her and deports her to a Catholic girls boarding school A youth characterized by constant rebellion against the mustiness of the postwar years and against a society that expects one thing above all from girls to smile nicely into the camera and under no circumstances direct the film themselves