Becoming Black / Juno Films ; produced by Anahita Nazemi ; directed by Ines Johnson-Spain.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Johnson-Spain, Ines, film director.

Nazemi, Anahita, film producer.

Juno Films, production company.

Language:

English

French

German

Subjects (All):

Black people--Germany--History.

Black people.

Race discrimination--Germany.

Race discrimination.

Germany--Race relations.

Germany.

Togo.

Race relations.

Genre:

Documentary films

History

Documentary films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 streaming video file (91 minutes)) : sound, color with black and white sequences

Distribution:

[New York, N.Y,] : Juno Films, [2019]

Language Note:

In German and French; with English subtitles.

System Details:

digital

Summary:

Imagine that your parents and brother are white, but your skin color is dark, and you're being told that this is pure coincidence. This is what happened to a girl in East Berlin in the 1960s. Years before, a group of African men had come to the town as students, and the German woman Sigrid fell in love with Lucien from Togo. Sigrid had a child by him, but she was already married to Armin. The child is filmmaker Ines Johnson-Spain. Meeting her stepfather Armin and others from her childhood years, she tracks the astonishing strategies of denial her parents and those around them came up with. In what's both an intimate portrayal and a critical exploration, she brings together painful and confusing childhood memories with matter-of-fact accounts that testify to a culture of rejection and tight-lipped denial.

Credits:

Editor, Yana Höhnerbach ; director of photography, Sebastian Winkels, Anne Misselwitz ; sound, Ulla Kösterke ;

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from title screen (viewed on February 6, 2024).

Originally produced as a documentary film in 2019.

OCLC:

1228529622

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.