Grandmother Ruth and her daughters
1945, the year Europe finally achieves peace a family tragedy takes place in a bourgeoise suburb of Stockholm. My grandmother and two aunts died the same day in october. When I was fourteen it turned up for me that it wasn’t the diceas my father have told me something else much worse.
With a model of my father's childhood house as I built and filmed in, unique archival material spanning the two world wars, and interwievs I tell the story about my Grandmother and the two aunts I never met.
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Johanna SchartauDirector
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Johanna SchartauWriter
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Johanna SchartauProducer
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Dominika Daubenbüchel, editKey Casteditor
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Carl EdströmKey CastSound editor/mix
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Project Title (Original Language):Farmor Ruth och hennes döttrar
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Project Type:Documentary, Feature, Television
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Runtime:1 hour
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Completion Date:April 2, 2014
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Production Budget:160,000 USD
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Country of Origin:Sweden
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Country of Filming:Sweden
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Language:Swedish
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Shooting Format:HDV
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Aspect Ratio:16:9
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
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Krakow Film Festival55Krakow, Polen
June 5, 2015
International competition -
IFEMA FilmfestivalMalmö, Sweden
April 4, 2014 -
OFF filmfestival PoznanPoznan, Poland
November 19, 2015
Festival directors Award 2015 -
China women film festivalBeijing
China
June 1, 2016
films:
2002 "I schartauanien" TV documentary for SVT
2006 Berlin expressen TV documentary for SVT
2014 Grandmother Ruth and her Daughters, TV documnetgary
Artist and filmmaker
www.johannaschartau.se