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'When Australian filmmaker Sophia Turkiewicz was seven years old, her Polish mother, Helen, abandoned her in an Adelaide orphanage. Sophia never forgot this maternal act of betrayal. Now in middle age, as Sophia examines her troubled relationship with Helen, she discovers the story behind Helen’s miraculous wartime escape from a Siberian gulag, her subsequent survival against the odds and the truth about an historic betrayal involving Stalin and the Allies.
'With Helen sliding into dementia, Sophia must confront her own demons. Did she ever truly know this woman who became her mother? Does she have it in her heart to forgive her? And is it too late?'
Source: Official website (oncemymother.com). (Sighted: 21/7/2014)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Introduction : Displaced Women : Eastern European Post-War Narratives in Australia
2014
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Life Writing , October vol. 11 no. 4 2014; (p. 375-387)This collection of essays resulted from a workshop convened at the Centre for European Studies, Australian National University in 2013. Katarzyna Kwapisz Williams writes that the event was organised in part to counter 'the under-representation of writers of Eastern European origin amongst Australian minority writers'.
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At World's End, Yours and Mine
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 26-27 July 2014; (p. 15)
— Review of These Final Hours 2013 single work film/TV ; Once My Mother 2014 single work film/TV -
Daughter's Fresh Takes Put a Fiction to the Test
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 24 July 2014; (p. 33)
— Review of Once My Mother 2014 single work film/TV -
Film Festival Success of Once My Mother Shows Audiences Crave Intelligent Films
2014
single work
column
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , July 2014;
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Daughter's Fresh Takes Put a Fiction to the Test
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 24 July 2014; (p. 33)
— Review of Once My Mother 2014 single work film/TV -
At World's End, Yours and Mine
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 26-27 July 2014; (p. 15)
— Review of These Final Hours 2013 single work film/TV ; Once My Mother 2014 single work film/TV -
Film Festival Success of Once My Mother Shows Audiences Crave Intelligent Films
2014
single work
column
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , July 2014; -
Introduction : Displaced Women : Eastern European Post-War Narratives in Australia
2014
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Life Writing , October vol. 11 no. 4 2014; (p. 375-387)This collection of essays resulted from a workshop convened at the Centre for European Studies, Australian National University in 2013. Katarzyna Kwapisz Williams writes that the event was organised in part to counter 'the under-representation of writers of Eastern European origin amongst Australian minority writers'.
Awards
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cPoland,cEastern Europe, Europe,
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Siberia,
cRussia,ccFormer Soviet Union,cEastern Europe, Europe,
- Adelaide, South Australia,