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This film hasn't gotten any attention outside of the German-speaking region of Austria and Germany, Switzerland. It tells the story of Agathe Schweigert searching for her son. In retrospective captions we learn that her son fled Germany after organizing anti-Nazi action in the early years. He flees to Paris from where he writes her about his routines and life. When the letters stop coming, Agathe takes off on her first ever trip to find the son for which she gave everything. Her travels take her to Paris, eventually to Southern France and Spain, where her son is fighting in the Resistance against Franco. Göring is a remarkable actress and displays the hardships and longing for a son with determination and quiet zeal. She is supported by a string of foreign actors, some more, some less capable of adapting to their supposed accents. Several of them make fine appearances. The film is a rare glance at Europe in the 1970s (where are the tourists?) and allows for an extremely real look at Germany in the 1940s. It is unpredictable and worth a good look.