A child, two mothers, and a war that doesn't care who loves him more.
The story of two women, one French and the other German, who fight for a child who has been mistakenly taken by the Germans after a bomb raid.
Acting
Spira and Göring: two women, zero villains, infinite ache.
Direction
Beyer's restraint—he knows the material needs no melodrama.
Writing
Script dares to make both mothers comprehensibly right.
Director
Frank Beyer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Frank Beyer was only 27 when he directed this, his breakthrough before East German censorship sidelined him.
Rare DEFA film to humanize a German mother without Soviet propaganda framing—subversive for 1957.
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