The Day I Was Not Born Page #3

Synopsis: During a stopover in Buenos Aires on her way to Chile, 31-year-old Maria recognizes a nursery rhyme. Maria doesn't speak a work of Spanish, but without understanding what she is singing, she remembers the Spanish lyrics. Disturbed and thrown off course, she decides to interrupt her journey and wander through the unfamiliar city. On the phone to Germany, she tells her father, Anton, about her experience and the peculiar fascination the unfamiliar city has had for her. Two days later, Anton suddenly turns up at Maria's hotel with something to confess: Maria spent the first three years of her life in Buenos Aires during the military dictatorship at the end of the 1970s. The people she had always thought were her parents had adopted her and brought her to Germany. Father and daughter begin a journey in search of Maria's biological parents. Anton does everything he can not to lose his daughter.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Florian Cossen
Production: schwarz/weiB
  7 wins & 5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.8
Year:
2010
94 min
Website
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- I don't want to.

Why not?

- I have no business with such peopIe.

What do you mean by ''such peopIe''?

- Such compIicated peopIe.

Why ''compIicated''?

We'II see each other Iater.

What had my parents actuaIIy done?

- I don't know. ProbabIy nothing!

The miIitary randomIy imprisoned peopIe

during the dictatorship.

Over thirty thousand peopIe disappeared.

ShortIy after you came to us,

we Ieft the country.

And you just took me with you.

- Maria, you were three.

ShouId we have put you in an orphanage?

You didn't teII them what my job is,

did you?

No.

I think we have to get off soon.

You didn't say anything

about my father either?.

No, why?.

Your famiIy sureIy

doesn't want poIicemen in their house.

And no sons of poIicemen either.

What makes you think that?

The famiIies of the disappeared

don't Iike the poIice.

What are you trying to teII me?

- Nothing.

But you don't

have anything to do with it.

No.

Was your father invoIved

with the miIitary?.

I don't know

It was about the coffee.

She wants to know

where we know each other from.

What did you teII her?.

That I work in the kiosk.

She is... What's that person,

when something happens to your parents,

the one they bring you to?

- Godmother.

Can you ask her

what happened to my parents?

Why they disappeared?

MarceIa was assistant at the university

and Luis was in the union.

At first they thought that

your parents wouId come back.

But they never came back.

In the streets

she Iooked at every girI your age

to see if it was you.

I hope you get this message.

PIease come back, we need to taIk.

I'm waiting for you here.

I Iove you.

Why did you grow up in Germany?.

Why I grew up there?

-Yeah, right.

With whom? What?

With whom were you in Germany?.

My father and my mother worked here

for a German company.

And when MarceIa and Luis vanished,

I was pIaced with them.

Do you know which company?.

I don't know

HeIIo.

- HeIIo.

I'm Iooking for my daughter.

I haven't seen her.

Is she with the poIiceman?

I don't know

They want to know what their names are.

My mother aIready passed away

when I was sixteen.

She wants to know

the name of your father.

Don't you want to teII them?

But it's not important.

They say it is important.

They don't have to worry, I was...

- I don't think it's about that.

What are they taIking about?

-The woman from your kindergarten.

What's she saying?.

- She was at his house.

What's she saying now?.

- She was at his house twice.

When?

FaIkenmayer was Luis' boss.

-Yes, but when was she there?

Four days

after your parents disappeared.

She was in their house but they said

they didn't know anything about you.

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