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Excellent documentary
In 1948, 83 children aged 2 to 14 are chosen from German orphanages to be adopted in South Africa by selected families. Their "Aryan blood" is intended to help the Boer minority to "remain white in a black land". The film tells the story of the adoptions in their historical context, and focuses on the lives of two of the 83. Through often chilling archival material as well as contemporary interviews, we learn of what they went through, having been taken from a Germany just beginning to turn its back on the horrors of Nazi ideology and transported to a South Africa just beginning to construct its brutal apartheid system. The film provides a sensitive portrait of two sensitive individuals who, uprooted and battered about as children, are at home neither here nor there. The version I saw (in 2013) contained dialog in English, German and Afrikans, with German subtitles for non-German dialog. A version with English subtitles for non-English dialog would be very valuable. The film would be a good candidate for film festivals and would be assured television audiences in all English-speaking countries.
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- wheresthedrivein
- Jun 15, 2013
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