Wie sieht das weibliche Gesicht des Krieges aus?

“Everything we know about war, we know from men’s voices,” it says at the end of Seven Hours of Wallenstein: A Seven-Course Feast of Battle. Jan-Christoph Gockel’s production quotes a text by Nobel Prize-winning author Svetlana Alexievich—War Has No Female Face, written more than 40 years ago.

Tamara Trampe (1942–2021) was born during this war, “shat out” onto the battlefield, as she herself put it, and had a distinctive, striking voice. *My Mother, a War, and I* (2014) is a powerful and also entertaining reckoning: a film that traces yellowed photographs, distant relatives, and one’s own history, as the mother reluctantly recounted it. And one that has to rub the camera’s eye again and again to see clearly what is happening—a reconciliation with being thrown into war and the world.

Film by

• Tamara Trampe and Johann Feindt – Screenplay and Direction
• Tamara Trampe – Interviews
• Johann Feindt – Camera
• Stephan Krumbiegel – Editing
• Dominik Schleier – Sound design
• Jule Cramer – Sound

Germany 2014 – Production

78 min – Running time

Introduction by

• Matthias Dell – Theater, Film, and Media Critic

(Introduction in German, film in German, Russian, and Ukrainian with German subtitles)