Flight and Expulsion | War Children Remember | Refuge-Confidence-Future 

ABOUT THE FILM
Drawing from twelve individual interviews, Filmmaker Thomas Knüppel has created the sensitive and touching documentary film ZUFLUCHT-ZUVERSICHT-ZUKUNFT.
A film in which viewers are allowed to accompany the contemporary witnesses to the time and places of their personal experiences of flight and expulsion.
The refugees and displaced persons found refuge in the village of Essenrode in Lower Saxony. Most of them and their families still live there today. The year 1945 has left a special mark on Essenrode - like countless other places. With the end of the war, refugees and displaced persons from Pomerania, West and East Prussia, Silesia, the Sudetenland, Wartheland, Bessarabia, the Baltic States, Galicia and other regions of the former Eastern territories came to the village. In the following years, people from the Soviet-occupied part of Germany and later the German Democratic Republic also fled to Essenrode.
GENERATION OF WAR CHILDREN
The contemporary witnesses share with us their challenges, but especially how they succeeded in taking their own FUTURE and that of the village into their own hands.
The idea for the project and the film came from Sabine C. Langer and Roland Remus. In the documentary, they shed light on transgenerational aspects and the importance of remembering from the perspective of the so-called WAR SENGTHEN GENERATION. Roland Remus was born and grew up in Essenrode.
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