Sanders-Brahms, Helma, Friedrichsen, Rainer, Lichtenhahn, Fritz, Mattes, Eva, Stein, Gisela, Stepanek, Elisabeth	...	(Director)
Bertolt Brecht, Helma Sanders-Brahms	...	(Writer)
Eva Mattes	...	Lene
Ernst Jacobi	...	Hans
Elisabeth Stepanek	...	Hanne
Angelika Thomas	...	Lydia
Rainer Friedrichsen	...	Ulrich
Gisela Stein	...	Aunt Ihmchen
Fritz Lichtenhahn	...	Uncle Bertrand
Anna Sanders	...	Anna
Miriam Lauer	...	Anna
Sonja Lauer	...	Anna
Helma Sanders-Brahms	...	Narrator
Friedrich Werner Hartmann	...
Hanne Hiob	...	Recited Brecht poem at beginning
Gabriele John	...
Johanna Karl-Lory	...
Bertolt Brecht	...	Poem
Jürgen Jürges	...	Director of Photography
Uta Periginelli	...	Editor
Elfie Tillack	...	Editor
Götz Heymann	...	Production Design
Janken Janssen	...	Costume Design
Berthold Sack	...	Makeup Artist
Barbara Telg-Tebbe	...	Makeup Artist
Egon Lauer	...
Fritz Poppenberg	...	Unit Production Manager
Jürgen Knieper	...	Original Music Composer
Renée Gundelach	...	Consulting Producer
Ursula Ludwig	...	Executive Producer

Comments: DGE 160

Summary: Helma Sanders-Brahms GERMANY, PALE MOTHER is an emotionally powerful love story that has become a modern classic. Ground-breaking in its realism, the film is set during World War II and follows newlywed Lene, whose young husband, a soldier, is sent to the front lines. Lene discovers that she is pregnant and is forced to take her child on a journey across the war-ravaged countryside.Raw and visceral, GERMANY, PALE MOTHER stands as a landmark a film that shows us war from a woman s perspective, creating a character in Lene who is by turns brave and foolhardy, resourceful and resilient, facing a bleak future with fierce determination. Eva Mattes (Effi Briest, Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant) delivers a performance of searing intensity, indelible and unforgettable.