Becoming Black
09/10/2019
In the 1960s, a white couple living in East Germany tells their dark-skinned child that her skin color is merely a coincidence. As a teenager, she accidentally discovers the truth. Years before, a group of African men came to study in a village nearby. Sigrid, an East German woman, fell in love with Lucien from Togo and became pregnant. But she was already married to Armin. The child is Togolese-East German filmmaker Ines Johnson-Spain. In interviews with Armin and others from her childhood years, she tracks the astonishing strategies of denial her parents, striving for normality, developed following her birth. What sounds like fieldwork about social dislocation becomes an autobiographical essay film and a reflection on themes such as identity, social norms and family ties, viewed from a very personal perspective.
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Ines Johnson-Spain
as Self
Armin Gundermann
as Self
Madeleine Papangou Johnson
as Self
Germaine Papangou Johnson
as Self
Geneviève Papangou Johnson
as Self
Irène Papangou Johnson
as Self
Christel Anders
as Self
Werner Anders
as Self
Rosi Judisch
as Self
Christophe Kuessi Johnson
as Self
Michael Gundermann
as Self
Raymond Johnson
as Self
Perpétue Johnson
as Self
Asiaba Johnson
as Self
Gisela Mwaungulu
as Self
Ernst Hoffmann
as Self
Robert Kuessi Johnson
as Self
Ruben Kweku Dabam Johnson
as Self
Gisele Hountondji
as Self
Gabriel Ampah Johnson
as Self
Jacqueline Agbokou
as Self
Felicia Johnson
as Self
Philipe Dütsch
as Self
Julius Hensel
as Self
Benino Eßling
as Self
Cécile Dütsch
as Self
Louisa Schirner
as Self
Mario Hensel
as Self
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