...and the father stayed in the war. Encounter with Syrian orphans (1990)

Overview : Director Junge was commissioned by the GDR in the country for the first time in the summer of 1970; his film In Syria auf Montage accompanies German engineers who train workers in the Homs textile factory. Shortly after filming ended, Hafez al-Assad put himself under the dictator. Twenty years later emerged ... the father stayed in the war over a youth club with Syrian orphans in Bad Saarow, whose fathers had died in the Lebanon war and accompanied them to Syria, where they were housed in separate, elite "schools of martyr children". Multi-faceted documents that oscillate between peaceful and tense, hopeful and unsettled.

Release Date : June 19, 1990

Runtime : 48m

Genre : Documentary, History  

Companies : DEFA-Studio für Wochenschau und Dokumentarfilme

Countries : East Germany, Germany

Keywords : textile industry, syria, syrian civil war, development aid, war orphan