Bulgaria of all Places / Ausgerechnet Bulgarien

The intimate tale of a family can encapsulate the evolution and the state of the society in which it lives. A privileged insight into the family album may enable the audience to relive important chapters in history and sense the mood of the times. The family in this story is that of writer Angelika Schrobsdorff. It is almost as if major characters from her work had developed a life of their own to reveal the invisible pages we could not find in her books. Dictatorship, the Cold War, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the conflict in the Middle East changed the life of this family in decisive ways. The narrative focuses primarily on events in Bulgaria that began with an escape from Berlin in 1939. The rifts and ruptures caused by two dictatorships – the Nazi and the Soviet – have left their mark on three generations of the Schrobsdorff family. All of them have to search for an identity, be it Jewish, German or Bulgarian.