Tonia and her Children (2011)

11-year-old Werka and her 9-year-old brother Marcel wind up at the front door of a children's home in Wroclaw. Asked who they are, Werka replies, "We are children of communists." In return the teacher yells, "Why do they only send us Judeo-communists?!!!" It is 1949. Werka and Marcel's mother, a pre-war communist, is arrested and charged with collaborating with American intelligence. She will do five and half years. Her children will spend these years in other children's homes. A film about a brother and a sister marked with the ideological choices of their parents.

Released Jan. 1, 2011 90 min None+

Genres: Documentary

Keywords: imdb.childhood-memories, imdb.life-choice, imdb.children-s-home, imdb.ideology, imdb.brother-sister-relationship, imdb.family-reunion, imdb.incarceration + 12 more, imdb.communist, imdb.mother, imdb.persecution, imdb.communism, imdb.post-war-poland, imdb.emigration, imdb.childhood, imdb.confession, imdb.sibling-relationship, imdb.arrest, imdb.mother-figure, imdb.polish-jew