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Meine Mütter – A Tale of Two Mothers
By Ron Holloway | August 18, 2008
Indeed, as noted by Tanja Meding in her report on the Tribeca Film Festiva, Meine Mütter (Two Mothers) (Germany, 2007), subtitled Spurensuche in Riga (Searching for Clues in Riga), is Rosa von Praunheim’s “most autobiographical film to date.” A critical hit at the 2007 Hof Film Festival, his Two Mothers also scores as one of the finest documentaries of the German film season.
It unfolds like a research detective thriller. Rosa von Praunheim – alias Holger Mischwitzky (born 25 November 1942 in Riga, Latvia) – discovers over months of meticulous research in Germany and Latvia how he had been adopted by Gertrud Mischwitzky shortly after his birth in Riga and that his real mother, Edith Radtke, died in 1946 in a mental clinic. Along the way, we also experience how dust-laden war records reveal historical facts unknown to most viewers. A history lesson par excellence.
– Ron Holloway
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