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Having Babies? (1976)
Directed by Sibylle Schönemann
Documentary · 18m
Sibylle Schönemann’s film about abortion lets young and older women speak; women who were forced to abort by their partners or who chose to carry the baby to term despite predicted difficulties. Assembled as a kind of collage, a round table alternates with stylised passages, while the camera also shows moments in a clinic right before and after the procedure. The attitude vacillates between drama and affirmation of life. Liberal perspectives, with one exception, are left out. Schönemann, together with Tamara Trampe, almost managed to take up the complex issue in a feature film.
Crew
- Director
- Sibylle Schönemann
- Director of Photography
- Klemens Piesker
- Editor
- Silvia Roeser
Details
- Original title
- Kinder kriegen?
- Release date
- 1976-11-10
- Runtime
- 18m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- DE
- Spoken languages
- German
- Countries
- Germany, East Germany
- Production
- Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen der DDR