Mama General

Mama General

0.0IMDb Score
Released:1997-01-01
Duration:98 min
Country:Germany
Director:Peter Heller, Sylvie Banuls
Actors:
Production:Filmkraft

Overview:

A film about poverty in a rich country: father, mother, seven children have made it out of the homeless asylum. The author met the Cologne family B. for the first time in 1976. Living with debts, installments, reminders, living with the certainty that the children will not fare any differently. For more than twenty years, between dreams and fears, the camera recorded two generations' fear of failure and hunger for middle class. A unique film chronicle from the "latest economic miracle" - between 1976 and 1997.

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