Your mom guilt-tripped you into visiting? Anke's mom sold her baby. Family drama: EXTREME MODE.
Urged by her mother, Anke left her baby for adoption ten years ago. For years afterward, she did not speak to her again. Now the soon-to-be attorney from Hamburg travels back to her home village to make up with her dying mother. She learns that her daughter Christina lives with Alex, a past love of Anke's and Christina's real father. Old wounds break up again and long forgotten feelings of hate as well as love flare up again. Anke leaves her fiancé to face up to her past. She decides in favour of her child and of a life with Alex.
Acting
Bibiana Beglau carries the whole messy maternal arc.
Production
Gritty German TV realism that refuses to romanticize village life.
Director
Ulrich Stark
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Early 2000s German TV movies loved punishing ambitious women who dared leave small towns—this one just makes her suffer stylishly.
Bibiana Beglau won Best Actress at Berlinale that same year for a completely different film, proving she was too good for TV melodrama and did it anyway.
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