My German Children

February. 13,2013

Rating：

5.5

Genre：

Documentary

Keywords：

Immigrant Family Cultural Identity Family Portrait

Trailer Synopsis Cast

Tom Tamar Pauer's family is both Israeli and German, Jewish and Christian. When she moves to Israel with her German children after 16 years in Munich, the question of her own identity in the third generation emerges.

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