Marcel Łoziński
Director
Tonia and her Children (2011)
11-year-old Werka and her 9-year-old brother Marcel wind up at the front door of a children's home in Wroclaw. Asked who they are, Werka replies, "We are children of communists." In return the teacher yells, "Why do they only send us Judeo-communists?!!!" It is 1949. Werka and Marcel's mother, a pre-war communist, is arrested and charged with collaborating with American intelligence. She will do five and half years. Her children will spend these years in other children's homes. A film about a brother and a sister marked with the ideological choices of their parents.
Genres: Documentary
Keywords: imdb.childhood-memories, imdb.life-choice, imdb.children-s-home, imdb.ideology, imdb.brother-sister-relationship, imdb.family-reunion, imdb.incarceration + 12 more, imdb.communist, imdb.mother, imdb.persecution, imdb.communism, imdb.post-war-poland, imdb.emigration, imdb.childhood, imdb.confession, imdb.sibling-relationship, imdb.arrest, imdb.mother-figure, imdb.polish-jew
Production Companies: Studio Filmowe Kronika
Country: Poland
Production Country:
Poland
Languages:
Polish
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90 min
Jan. 1, 2011
Released
NR