Journey Back to Youth (2001)

Original title

A Journey Back to Youth

Directed by

Alexander Gutman

Genre

documentary film

Country

Russia

Runtime

55 min

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Four elderly German women recall their experiences as teenagers from East Prussia who were sent to a Soviet labor camp after World War II. The film lets them tell their own stories in their own words.

soberingreflectiveintimateslow-pacedmelancholicfactualsombernostalgic

What happens

Journey Back to Youth (Russian: Путешествие в юность, Puteshestvie v yunost) is a 2001 documentary film by Russian film makers Alexander Gutman and Sergey Litvyakov. The film is an interview of four German women (Charlotte Kaufmann, Traute Sommer, Adelheid Imhof, Dora Birk) who tell the story of four young German girls from East Prussia placed into a Soviet labor camp at the end of World War II according the Yalta Conference decision about mobilization of Germans for reconstruction works in the USSR as a form or war reparations by the Germany, implemented according to the Soviet top secret Order 7161. The film won the Platinum Award at the 34th International Independent Film Festival (Worldfest) in Houston, Texas, in 2001 and the "Gold Camera Award" at the US International Film and Video Festival in 2001. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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