- Two Mothers is a poetic, impressionistic film that invites you to reconsider established cultural concepts. An East German and a Vietnamese family enter into a borderless relationship to secure their Vietnamese son from deportation from Germany. After 16 years, they travel together to Vietnam for the first time, while re-evaluating the very concepts of family, society, responsibility, and freedom. As the families voyage through Vietnam, they realize what clashes in culture and opposing political will - that they truly have overcome.
- Two Mothers is a poetic, impressionistic film that invites you to reconsider established cultural concepts.
An East German and a Vietnamese family enter into a borderless relationship to secure their Vietnamese son from deportation from Germany. After 16 years, they travel together to Vietnam for the first time, while re-evaluating the very concepts of family, society, responsibility, and freedom. As the families voyage through Vietnam, they realize what clashes in culture and opposing political will - that they truly have overcome.
Chau came to East Germany as a very young child of a family of foreign workers until reunification of East and West Germany threatened to force his family back to Vietnam. His mother was deported first, then shortly before his 18th birthday - at which point he would have received German citizenship - he and his father were scheduled for deportation.
The close relationship between Chau and a young German boy named Oliver lead to the adoption of Chau into a German family, saving him from deportation. Eventually his father was deported, and two years later, murdered in Hanoi. His mother would find her way to Prague to be closer to Chau.
After 16 years, the two mothers, the German father, and the siblings traveled together to Vietnam for the first time, discovering their relationship anew.
It became a contemplative journey to discover the personal values in the daily routines of the diverse people of Vietnam, and an exploration of universal values.
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