
Keywords
- DOK Leipzig
- DOK Leipzig (old)
- Made in Germany
- Topic: Mental Health
- death
- family
- Mental Health
- mourning
Director
- Karin Jurschick
Documentary, Timeless
1h 13min
16+
DE
Karin Jurschick examins the reasons for her late mother's suicide.
Karin Jurschick examins the reasons for her late mother's suicide.
The woman committed suicide in 1974. In 1997, the film director visits the woman's husband. He still lives in the same apartment he moved into with his wife and child 41 years ago.
Everything is almost exactly as it was four decades ago. The man is the director's father. She films him with her DV camera for the next two and half years. She observes, asks questions, and even accompanies him on a boat trip. The more her father talks, the more we seem to understand her mother.
“In 1997, after years of no contact, I meet my father again. He still lives in the same apartment. In the bedroom, the same blue blanket covers half of my mother's bed. After that, and for the next two and a half years, I make recordings with a DV camera. I film obsessively...” (Karin Jurschick)