Bettina

Bettina Wegner, born in West Berlin in 1947, grew up in East Berlin, expatriated at the age of 36 and has been “uprooted” ever since. The singer-songwriter's career is one of the most exciting biographies of the 20th century. It is the path from a child who fervently worshipped Stalin, to a hopeful teenager who wanted to help build a society with her own songs, to a soulful artist with an unshakeable humanist attitude. As heroic as this sounds, it is crazy and ludicrous, laborious and sad, devoted and futile in the many things in life that make up a biography between the songs. This is what Bettina Wegner tells us, this is what the movie tells us. Bettina Wegner's life is also the story of a century; it is in her bones, her soul, her thoughts - and in her songs.