Eight Brothers and Sisters

Acht Geschwister by Christoph Weinert is a tribute to sibling life a piece of nonfictional narrative cinema The film tells the story of two sisters and six brothers who were born between 1933 and 1943 and grew up on a farm in a small village in Pomerania With their intertwined very different lives the film tells not only the story of the eight siblings and their common escape with their parents after the end of World War 2 but also a piece of recent German history when the siblings are separated by the innerGerman border for over 40 years during the Cold War Nevertheless the contact between them never breaks