ALONE IN FOUR WALLS

Everyone sees in them only criminals, and forgets that they are children. Children who never had a childhood. Some of the inmates we meet are serving time for theft, some for murder - but filmmaker Alexandra Westmeier lets us spend enough time with them to see beyond their ‘hard man’ exteriors to the scared boys within. She also provides glimpses of their home lives, and we begin to realise that, for these children, prison is often an easier place to be. For the first time in their young lives, they no longer have to fight for their daily existence; they can simply be what they are--children.

Alexandra Westmeier – filmography
Fremde.Heimat (2003)
Finde mich (2005)
Mama, mir geht es gut (2006)

Allein in vier Wänden (2007)

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