Once My Mother

– Australian filmmaker Sophia Turkiewicz investigates why her Polish mother abandoned her and uncovers..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
8.00 / 10
Duration:
One Hour and 15 Minutes
Release Year:
2013
Once My Mother (2013)

Australian filmmaker Sophia Turkiewicz investigates why her Polish mother abandoned her and uncovers the truth behind her mother's wartime escape from a Siberian gulag, leaving Sophia to confront her own capacity for forgiveness.

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Once My Mother (2013) - Trailer

Release Date:

01 Oct 2013

Language:

English

Director:

Sophia Turkiewicz

Writer:

Sophia Turkiewicz

Main Actors:

Zofia Wichlacz, Karolina Porcari, Wenanty Nosul, Artur Urbanski

Plot:

When Australian filmmaker Sophia Turkiewicz was seven years old, her Polish mother, Helen, abandoned her in an Adelaide orphanage. Sophia never forgot this maternal act of betrayal. Now in middle age, as Sophia examines her troubled relationship with Helen, she discovers the story behind Helen's miraculous wartime escape from a Siberian gulag, her subsequent survival against the odds and the truth about an historic betrayal involving Stalin and the Allies. With Helen sliding into dementia, Sophia must confront her own demons. Did she ever truly know this woman who became her mother? Does she have it in her heart to forgive her? And is it too late?

Awards:

6 wins & 3 nominations.

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
7.9/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
100%