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Children of Dictators

Germany: Bettina Göring
The great-niece of Goering looks like Hermann more than anyone else in the family. She struggled with the Nazi heritage throughout her life, at the age of 30 she got herself sterilized, partly to cut the genes - After decades in the US she decides to leave and settle somewhere else. The film follows her to Germany to dig for her roots, face victims of her family, publish her autobiography and find peace within herself. On this journey she is accompanied by her husband Adi whose historic reflections based on their research add another layer to Bettina's personal story in the film while show their common commitment to deal with the past.
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Cuba: Alina Fernandez
Alina lives in Miami quietly where Cuban crowds are planning a huge mass celebration for the day when Alina's father will die. She doesn't know if she will join them though she has never been able to forgive her dad for what he caused to her and their country. We see her in her home, in the bars of Little Havana, in a Cuban radio show and in her yoga class in Miami while we visit the locations of her childhood in Cuba from her home to her ballet school where we talk to her ex-teacher who gives another perspective on Alina - The film ends in Cuba and in Miami after the death of Fidel Castro, showing mourning, celebration - and Alina.
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Chile: Lucía Pinochet
Surprisingly Augusto Pinochet's daughter Lucia is approached by his father's fans in the streets of Santiago de Chile. But to certain areas of the country she is afraid to go as she fears she would be beaten up because of her father. She accepts the fact that her father was a dictators but she believes he was a good one - In the film Lucia Pinochet recalls tense conversations with her father and with the head of the secret service while sharing the atmosphere of a loving and warm family environment. Eventually she meets one of the most outspoken critic of her father.
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