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Postcard to Daddy

Postcard to Daddy

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 1, 2010

Runtime

1h 26m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

74%

Original Title

Postcard to Daddy

Production Companies

Michael Stock Filmproduktion

Director

Michael Stock

Description

As a child, Michael Stock was sexually abused - by his own father. 25 years later he is still looking for inner peace. In conversations with his family and friends and his own reflections, he paints an ever clearer, if contradictory picture of what happened and of the consequences for each of the family members. Old family films seem to show a happy family - excerpts from Michael's first feature film hint at his extreme adult life, overshadowed by his lifelong trauma. Yet in spite of the intense drama, the film doesn't have an atmosphere of anger and hatred but rather a surprising air of hope and love of life. Michael's aim is not to accuse the "perpetrator" but to understand. In the end, he takes his video "Postcard" to his father. With the camera running, he confronts him with his past.