Liefde is Aardappelen

Eines Tages bekam die Filmemacherin Aliona van der Horst ihr Erbe: sechs Quadratmeter, das Sechstel eines Holzhauses im ländlichen Russland, wo ihre Mutter aufgewachsen war. Aliona begann eine Reise in die Kindheit ihrer Mutter und deren fünf Schwestern, die Angst, Hunger und Krieg in Stalins Russland erlebten. Aus der Erkundung des Familienschicksals wird ein ergreifender, poetischer Film: Begleitet von den magischen Animationen von Simone Massi werden unvorstellbare Ereignisse der sowjetischen Vergangenheit begreifbar. Die Filmemacherin erzählt eine Geschichte von Terror, immensem Mut und einer Angst, die diese vier Wände nie verlassen hat.

One day, Dutch film maker van der Horst was given her inheritance: 6 square meters, one sixth of a wooden house in the Russian countryside where her mother grew up. She began a journey back into the childhood of her Russian mother and her five sisters, all of whom struggled with fear, famine and war in Stalin's Russia. Aliona's quest into the fate of her family becomes a poignant and poetic film. Accompanied by the magical animation of Simone Massi, unimaginable events in the Soviet past are given an immediate charge. The filmmaker tells the tale of Soviet terror, immense bravery and a fear that has never left those four walls. // One day, Dutch film maker van der Horst was given her inheritance: 6 square meters, one sixth of a small, wooden house in the Russian countryside where her mother grew up. (...) She began a journey into the past, back into the childhood of her Russian mother and her five sisters, all of whom struggled with fear, famine and war in Stalin’s Russia; experiences that left them scarred to their very soul. Aliona’s quest into the lives and fate of her family becomes a loving, poignant, and poetic film with Chekhovian characters. (...) Along with the stories of ordinary people living in the small farmhouse, the film maker tells the tale of Soviet terror, immense bravery and a fear that has never left those four walls. (Square Eyes)