Two Mothers
Filmmaking on the Queer Frontier

Germany / 2007 / 87'
In German, Latvian, English with Chinese and English subtitles

Director: Rosa von Praunheim

At 57, Rosa von Praunheim's 94-year-old mother told him a secret that rewrote his life: he was adopted. Only after the death of Gertrud, the woman who raised the enfant terrible of German cinema with unconditional love, did he dare to look for his biological mother, armed with little more than the name of a Riga children's home. What unfolds is a detective story through the darkest chapter of European history, leading through the archives of Nazi-occupied Latvia to a fate that proves devastating. Germany's great provocateur turns the camera on himself and finds his most tender register.