My Mother
Using the mother’s life and constant flight as the main thread, the film shows us a deeply religious, Jewish girl, born in the Ukraine in 1902, who died an atheist and communist in Copenhagen in 1985.
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Using the mother’s life and constant flight as the main thread, the film shows us a deeply religious, Jewish girl, born in the Ukraine in 1902, who died an atheist and communist in Copenhagen in 1985.
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