Ein Leben
1980, German. Directed by Helke Misselwitz.
Using photos and letters that the director found in a landfill, she reconstructs in her documentary film the life of Maria Bartel, a Berlin baker born in 1902 who, as the director comments in voice-over, "was in the prime of her life during fascism." In 1920, she moved from the East Prussian province to Berlin with her first husband. After his suicide, she opened a bakery, which she ran until the end of the war in 1945, raised her son, and now has various relationships and love affairs.
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- 0h 31m
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- German
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- Released
- 26 November 1980
- Country
- East Germany, Germany
- Written by
- Helke Misselwitz
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Ein Leben (1980) was directed by Helke Misselwitz.