Becoming Black
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.
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Release date
09/10/2019
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Ines Johnson-Spain
Self
Armin Gundermann
Self
Madeleine Papangou Johnson
Self
Germaine Papangou Johnson
Self
Geneviève Papangou Johnson
Self
Irène Papangou Johnson
Self
Christel Anders
Self
Werner Anders
Self
Rosi Judisch
Self
Christophe Kuessi Johnson
Self
Michael Gundermann
Self
Raymond Johnson
Self
Perpétue Johnson
Self
Asiaba Johnson
Self
Gisela Mwaungulu
Self
Ernst Hoffmann
Self
Robert Kuessi Johnson
Self
Ruben Kweku Dabam Johnson
Self
Gisele Hountondji
Self
Gabriel Ampah Johnson
Self
Jacqueline Agbokou
Self
Felicia Johnson
Self
Philipe Dütsch
Self
Julius Hensel
Self
Benino Eßling
Self
Cécile Dütsch
Self
Louisa Schirner
Self
Mario Hensel
Self
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