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Becoming Black

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6.0/10 • 2

2019-10-091h 31m

Documentary

In the 1960s, a white couple living in East Germany tells their dark-skinned child that her skin color is merely a coincidence. As a teenager, she accidentally discovers the truth. Years before, a group of African men came to study in a village nearby. Sigrid, an East German woman, fell in love with Lucien from Togo and became pregnant. But she was already married to Armin. The child is Togolese-East German filmmaker Ines Johnson-Spain. In interviews with Armin and others from her childhood years, she tracks the astonishing strategies of denial her parents, striving for normality, developed following her birth. What sounds like fieldwork about social dislocation becomes an autobiographical essay film and a reflection on themes such as identity, social norms and family ties, viewed from a very personal perspective.

Directors
Ines Johnson-Spain
Writters
Ines Johnson-Spain
Editors
Ines Johnson-Spain, Yana Höhnerbach

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  1. Ines Johnson-Spain

    Ines Johnson-Spain

    Self

  2. Armin Gundermann

    Armin Gundermann

    Self

  3. Madeleine Papangou Johnson

    Madeleine Papangou Johnson

    Self

  4. Germaine Papangou Johnson

    Germaine Papangou Johnson

    Self

  5. Geneviève Papangou Johnson

    Geneviève Papangou Johnson

    Self

  6. Irène Papangou Johnson

    Irène Papangou Johnson

    Self

  7. Christel Anders

    Christel Anders

    Self

  8. Werner Anders

    Werner Anders

    Self

  9. Rosi Judisch

    Rosi Judisch

    Self

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Status
Released
Original Language
German
Budget
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Revenue
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Keywords
berlin, germanybiographyafro-germantogoblack perspectiveddr