Becoming Black

Becoming Black (2019)

Released: 2019-10-09 Duration: 1hr 31min
Genres: Documentary
Rating 8.0

Overview

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.

Production Companies

ZDF
ZDF
Kobalt Productions
Kobalt Productions

Additional Info

Budget $0.00
Revenue $0.00
Original Language de
Popularity 0.76

Directed By

Ines Johnson-Spain

Crew

Producer
Anahita Nazemi
Cinematography
Sebastian Winkels
Cinematography
Anne Misselwitz
Sound Designer
Brooke Trezise
Executive Producer
Katrin Sandmann
Executive Producer
Stefan Mathieu

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