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THE DAY I WAS NOT BORN (DAS LIED IN MIR) (Past Film)
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Completed - GERMAN, ENGLISH - Drama - 84 minutes

Log Line

In Buenos Aires, a young German woman uncovers a long-kept family secret whose origins go back to the time of the Argentinean military dictatorship.

Previous markets

  • AFM 2010 (Premiere)
  • Ventana Sur 2010 (Screening)
  • Berlin EFM 2011 (Screening)
  • Cannes 2011 (Screening)
Full history

Year of production : 2010

Director(s) : Florian COSSEN
Writer(s) : Elena VON SAUCKEN, Florian COSSEN
Cast : Jessica SCHWARZ, Michael GWISDEK, Rafael FERRO

Producer(s) : Fabian MAUBACH, Jochen LAUBE

Synopsis

During a stopover on her way to Chile, 31-year-old Maria (Jessica Schwarz) recognizes a nursery rhyme in Buenos Aires. Maria doesn't speak a word of Spanish, but without understanding what she is singing she remembers the Spanish lyrics. Disturbed and thrown off course, she breaks her journey and wanders through the unfamiliar city. On the phone to Germany she tells her father, Anton (Michael Gwisdek), about her experience and the peculiar fascination the unfamiliar city has on her. Two days later, Anton suddenly turns up at Maria's hotel with something to confess Maria spent the first three years of her life in Buenos Aires during the military dictatorship at the end of the seventies, until the people she had always thought were her parents adopted her and brought her to Germany. Father and daughter begin a journey together in search of Maria's biological parents. Anton does everything he can to not lose his daughter.

Production

Country(ies) : GERMANY

GERMANY Feb 10, 2011 SCHWARZ-WEISS F
NORWAY AS FIDALGO FILM
SWITZERLAN Aug 04, 2011 LOOK NOW! FILMD


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Festivals and Awards

Sofia IFF 2011 Competition


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