Hungerjahre

In her autobiographically coloured film, Jutta Brückner shows the girl Ursula Scheumann, who at the age of 13 begins to doubt the ideal world of adults and the Adenauer era. After her first menstruation, she perceives her awakening sexuality as well as her mother's sexual hostility all the more clearly. At the same time, she discovers that her father is having an affair and is also a hypocrite from a political point of view. However, her questions and doubts only earn her ignorant silence... "An austere, brittle and at the same time very beautiful film that captures memories very precisely - including collective memories of a girl's youth in the 1950s in West Germany." (Basler Zeitung)