Toxi 18
One evening, a well-to-do Hamburg family finds a five-year-old girl abandoned at their door. Her name is Toxi, and she's black, the daughter of a deceased German girl and an American GI. Premiering in August 1952, when the first generation of those children created by marriages or liaisons between German women and American GIs began entering German schools, this film effectively details the prejudices then existing in Germany against mixed marriages and the children they produced.
Introduction by Dr. Robbie Aitken, Senior Lecturer in Imperial History at Sheffield Hallam University
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- Director
- Robert A. Stemmle
- Country
- Germany
- Year
- 1952
- Duration
- 89 mins
- Language
- German with English subtitles.
- Cast
- Elfie Fiegert , Johanna Hofer , Paul Bildt
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