Check out the official trailer of Let Me Go, the latest drama movie written and directed by Polly Steele and starring Juliet Stevenson, Jodhi May, Lucy Boynton, Karin Bertling, Stanley Weber, and Eva Magyar:
LET ME GO
Every family has a secret. Her secret was their prison.
A mother and daughter divided by war. A trauma that lasts generations.
A secret too shocking to hide. A truth too terrible to know.
Based on the true life story of Helga Schneider.
“Let Me Go is a film about mothers and daughters, it is about ghosts from the past and the impact they leave on the present.
Developed from Helga Schneider’s true life story, Let Me Go explores the effect on Helga’s life of being abandoned by her mother, Traudi in 1941 when she was just four years old.
The film is set in the year 2000 following not only Helga and Traudi’s journeys but the next two generations and how Beth, Helga’s daughter and Emily her granddaughter are confronted with the long-term effects of Traudi’s leaving.
When Helga receives a letter telling her that Traudi is close to death, it is Emily with whom Helga shares the truth. Emily volunteers to accompany her to Vienna to meet the great-grandmother she thought was dead, and experience the unraveling of the darkest of family secrets.”
Anyway, the latest film poster:
LET ME GO
Based on a true story.
Four generations. One horrible truth.
UK release date: September 15, 2017. No official US release date yet.
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