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202585 minPGdocumentary

Mothers

202585 minPGdocumentary

Mothers share their diverse experiences, highlighting the challenges and expectations of various family structures, including single parents and same-sex couples.

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Birgit Bergmann,

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Mothers share their diverse experiences, highlighting the challenges and expectations of various family structures, including single parents and same-sex couples.

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Birgit Bergmanndirector

Oliver Weranidirector

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Mothers talk about their experiences. What is expected of them, what personal and social challenges do they face? Everything is represented: from nuclear families to single parents, homosexual parent constellations to motherhood through artificial insemination. Layer by layer, outdated and inverted role models and also the break with social norms become visible. Motherhood between backbreaking work and euphoria.

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