52′, directed by Jean-Pierre Carlon.
Co-produced by France Télévisions, with the participation of Planète.
With the support of the CNC, the PROCIREP, the ANGOA, the Ministry of Defense, General Secretariat for Administration, Directorate of Memory, Heritage and Archives, the PACA region and the General Council of Bouches-du-Rhône.
Selected for FIPATEL 2010.
Other broadcasts: RTS, Histoire, Netflix.
In a Germany emptied of its twenty million young men mobilized in the Wehrmacht and sent to all the fronts, where there were hardly any more in the homes than old people and children, the prisoners of war and those required for the Obligatory Work Service (STO) found themselves.
The stories that run through this film show us that during this murderous conflict, men and women were able to come together at the most intimate level and love each other, defying the prohibitions, the dangers, the suffering and sometimes leaving behind irreparable after-effects.
Most of the children of the war are still hiding; they have known the shame of being born to the enemy, of not having had a father…
They ride a time machine, going back in time to find the trace of this imagined father, without whom they will never be able to really build roots. This quest for the father remains at the center of their lives.
In France as in Germany, these wartime loves have left behind thousands of children who, more than sixty years later, are still looking for a father.
DVD edition by Les Productions du Lagon and ClapOsud.
The DVD includes an English subtitled version and 15 minutes of bonus material.