...and the father stayed in the war. Encounter with Syrian orphans

Director Junge was commissioned by the GDR in the country for the first time in the summer of 1970; his film In Syria auf Montage accompanies German engineers who train workers in the Homs textile factory. Shortly after filming ended, Hafez al-Assad put himself under the dictator. Twenty years later emerged ... the father stayed in the war over a youth club with Syrian orphans in Bad Saarow, whose fathers had died in the Lebanon war and accompanied them to Syria, where they were housed in separate, elite "schools of martyr children". Multi-faceted documents that oscillate between peaceful and tense, hopeful and unsettled.

Country:

East Germany,

Germany

Genre:

Documentary,

History

Duration:

48 minutes

Year:

1990

Director:

Winfried Junge

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Company:

DEFA-Studio für Wochenschau und Dokumentarfilme

Cast:
Crew:
Winfried Junge

Director

Barbara Junge

Screenplay

Winfried Junge

Screenplay

Harald Klix

Director of Photography

Barbara Junge

Editor