

Becoming Black
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2019-10-09 • 1h 31m
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

Becoming Black
Visit website2019-10-09 • 1h 31m
6.0/10 • 2
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
Top Billed Cast
View CreditsInes Johnson-Spain
Self
Armin Gundermann
Self
Madeleine Papangou Johnson
Self
Germaine Papangou Johnson
Self
Geneviève Papangou Johnson
Self
Irène Papangou Johnson
Self
Christel Anders
Self
Werner Anders
Self
Rosi Judisch
Self
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- Original Language
- German
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- Keywords
- berlin, germanybiographyafro-germantogoblack perspectiveddr