Films: 2004
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My Foreign Child
For five years Susan and Rainer Werner have dreamed of becoming a real family. Shortly before their departure for Haiti in February 2004, a bloody civil war breaks out there and the two girls they are planning to adopt are caught in the thick of it. The Werners are thrown into a spiral of emotion, which we witness as we accompany them on their exciting journey towards having a family of their own. 2004, ZDF, 33 min
The 53-Foot-Lady
Birgit Knott comes from an old Bavarian brewing family. For the past three years, she has been driving an eighteen-wheeler truck through Canada and the US. In his film, Christian Bauer, who drove ten thousand kilometres with her in the summer of 2004, learns how Birgit Knott came to be travelling as she does, and about some of the experiences she has had so far. 2004, NDR, 44 min
The Master´s Daughter
When Petra's father died in 1995, neither of her brothers could take over the family printing plant near Wasseburg. The then 47 year-old artist was confronted with the most difficult decision of her life. If she decided to take on the business, she would have a lot to do, not only in shaking off the shadow of her overpowering and ingenious father, but in running a business alongside being a wife and a mother. 2004, BR, 45 min
The Ritchie Boys
"The Ritchie Boys" is the untold story of a group of young men, who fled Nazi Germany and returned to Europe in US-uniforms to help the Allied war effort against Hitler's Third Reich. They knew the psychology and the language of the enemy better than anybody else. In Camp Ritchie, Maryland, they were trained in intelligence and psychological warfare. Not always courageous, but determined, bright, and inventive they fought their own kind of war. They saved lives. They were victors, not victims. "The Ritchie Boys" was the opening film of Hotdocs in Toronto 2004. Praise for The Ritchie Boys It… 2004, WDR / MDR / BR, 90 min