Kindheit  (Childhood)

1987, color, 87 min. Feature
Dir.: Siegfried Kühn, Martina Schmidt
Script: Siegfried Kühn
Camera: Peter Ziesche
Music: Hans Jürgen Wenzel
Cast: Carmen Maja Antoni, Marc Poser, Fritz Marquardt, Helmut Müller-Lankow, Angelika Böttiger, Martina Eitner, Renate Usko, Klaus Bieligk, Andrzej Pieczynski, Heide Kipp
35mm, English subtitles - renting information

Synopsis:

Alfons lives with his grandparents on a Silesian village farm at the end of WWII.  He adores his grandmother, who runs everything after her husband dies.  But everything changes after the appearance of a traveling showman in the xenophobic village.