Do Right and Fear No One

Synopsis

A portrait of a woman’s life between 1915 and 1975. In Jutta Brückner’s documentary, her mother looks back at the 60 years of her life, talking about her father’s early accidental death, the constraints faced by a lower middle-class family of five, her training as a seamstress, marriage to a bookkeeper committed to social democratic ideals, the privations of war, and not least of all, her later realisation that fear may have caused her to miss opportunities … An ingenious collage of picture and sound accompanies the mother’s narrative, a tapestry of proverbs, pop songs, marching music, and the noise of war. Hundreds of photographs – most selected from August Sander’s (1876–1964) project “People of the 20th Century”, alongside newer photos by Abisag Tüllmann, among others – lend the individual vita of the director’s mother a kind of ontological validity. Images of labourers and office workers, excursions and marches, imbue what we hear with references that transcend the personal.

Main Cast

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Jutta Brückner
Writing	Writer	Jutta Brückner
Editing	Editor	Jutta Brandstaedter
Camera	Director of Photography	Francisco Alcalá-Toca
Crew	Commissioning Editor	Eckart Stein Annegret Even
Department	Role	Name

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