The Christian Century, August 10th, 1994
AT THE END of Margarethe von Trotta's film The Leaden Time (1981), the young son of a murdered terrorist turns to his aunt. "Tell me about my mother," he says. For the viewer, the mother's story seems to have ended; but for the boy the story is the beginning. As viewers leave the theater, they wonder: what version of the past will his aunt give him? Whether she tells the truth or lies, he will have to struggle to weave what he learns of the past into the meaning of his own existence.
Most of us want to understand the links between our own identities and those of our families, communities an...
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