Becoming Black

Becoming Black (2019)


  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release Date: 2019-10-09
  • User Rating: 8/10 from 1 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 31min
  • Language: Deutsch
  • Production Company: Kobalt Documentary GmbH
  • Production Country: Germany
  • Director: Ines Johnson-Spain
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Summary

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
Directing Ines Johnson-Spain Director
Writing Ines Johnson-Spain Writer
Production Anahita Nazemi Producer
Editing Yana Höhnerbach Editor
Crew Sebastian Winkels Cinematography
Crew Anne Misselwitz Cinematography
Sound Ulla Kösterke Sound
Sound Brooke Trezise Sound Designer
Sound Jean-Paul Bourelly Music
Sound Corneille Houssou Sound
Sound Manuela Schininá Sound
Production Katrin Sandmann Executive Producer
Production Stefan Mathieu Executive Producer
Crew Claudia Landsberger Dramaturgy

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