YOUR STRUGGLE – MY STRUGGLE

ABOUT THE FILM

The true price of a war is paid once the war is over.

With a lot of humour and courage, Marko Doringer sets out to discover the roots of his melancholy state of mind. YOUR STRUGGLE – MY STRUGGLE is a cross-generational journey of discovery. It’s a film about growing up as a member of the third generation of the German-European post-war era. And it’s also a touching cinematic family therapy, a film about an attempt at making peace.

The film is currently in the editing stage. It is scheduled for completion in early 2023.

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  Summer, a sunny beach by the sea, a wonderful woman, the greatest kid in the world, a successful career – that’s the stuff Marko’s dreams are made of. But the reality of his life is very different: he spends his days in a basement office in Vienna, staring at a screen. When he gets home, he is greeted by a crying toddler and a stressed girlfriend. His father wants Marko to move back in with his parents and be their personal caregiver. How much more will he have to handle before this is over?

  Marko Doringer embarks on a very personal journey to retrace his history. He visits his friends, wants to get closer to the generation of his parents and takes a look back at the lives of his grandparents. Marko wants to find out what exactly was passed on to him while growing up in this affluent society that keeps making his life so difficult. He digs deep into past decades, crossing the layers that lie between four generations: What were the traumas that haunted his grandfather’s life after the war? How did his father cope with them? How much of them has trickled down to Marko’s own life? And what of all this will he himself pass on to his daughter Elsa?

  With YOUR STRUGGLE – MY STRUGGLE, Marko Doringer presents a film about growing up in the third generation of the German-European post-war era. It’s a captivating story about an attempt at making peace, a story that is sometimes filled with a leaden atmosphere, sometimes with joie de vivre, and sometimes with the lingering pain of old wounds. And it’s a touching account of how a documentary film can function as family therapy.