Unreal Estate

In the seemingly paradisiacal surroundings of their Russian summerhouse, the filmmaker turns her parents - Holocaust and labor camp survivors - into willing actors in their own stories. For over 25 years she has attempted to influence their memory and family history through the power of image and wishful thinking, to create a family myth that could be healing. The summerhouse has become a collection of methaphors where time passes at a stretchable speed - like mythical time where the story continues but is repeating itself at the same time.