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Becoming Black

09 Oct 2019
  • Germany
91 mins
6
2 votes
  • Documentary
articleOverview personCast
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.
  • Ines Johnson-Spain

    as Self
  • Armin Gundermann

    as Self
  • Madeleine Papangou Johnson

    as Self
  • Germaine Papangou Johnson

    as Self
  • Geneviève Papangou Johnson

    as Self
  • Irène Papangou Johnson

    as Self
  • Christel Anders

    as Self
  • Werner Anders

    as Self
  • Rosi Judisch

    as Self
  • Christophe Kuessi Johnson

    as Self
  • Michael Gundermann

    as Self
  • Raymond Johnson

    as Self

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