Nominated for the EMAF Media Art Award of the Association of German Film Critics (VdFk)

German festival premiere

German with English subtitles

The Impossibility of Showing What Should Never Have Happened explores the continuities of National Socialist child rearing ideals in post-war German society. The parenting book The German Mother and Her First Child by lung specialist Dr. Johanna Haarer, steeped in Nazi ideology, remained in publication with a different title until 1987. Silke Schönfeld enters into a dialogue with her mother and aunt, whose upbringing in the 1950s and 60s was still very much characterised by a constant call for discipline, obedience and the suppression of one’s own needs.

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