Completed - GERMAN, ROMANIAN - Drama, Family, Social issues - 86 minutes
"Clara" follows the story of a Romanian divorced mother working in Germany, who has to face her failure as a mother.
Year of production : 2023 Director(s) : Dorohoi SABIN Writer(s) : Ruxandra GHIȚESCU Cast : Olga TÖRÖK, Ovidiu CRISAN, Luca PUIA, Claudia IEREMIA Producer(s) : Dan BURLAC, Daniel EHRENBERG, Sabin DOROHOI, Viorel CHESARU (Chainsaw Europe Studio)
Set on the background of economical migration, the film tells the story of Clara, a divorced Romanian mother in her thirties who needs to work abroad in Ulm, a German Town by the Danube River. She is as a babysitter for a little girl that is very fond of. At the same time, she had to leave behind her own 12 years old son who is now in the care of his grandfather. They live in a poor Romanian village also by the Danube River. Feeling abandoned by his mother, the boy runs away from home in an attempt to reach his mother by traveling on a small boat upriver. In this context, Clara has to come back home and face the life she left behind: her responsibility for the actions of her son. She is torn between the love for her son and the maternal feelings for the little girl she babysits in Germany.
Country(ies) : ROMANIA, GERMANY