Toxi [videorecording] / Fono-Film GmbH zeigt den R.A. Stemmle Film nach einer Idee von Peter Franke, Maria Osten-Sacken ; Buch, Peter Franke, Maria Osten-Sacken, R.A. Stemmle ; Regie, R.A. Stemmle.
Elfie Fiegert, Paul Bildt, Johanna Hofer, Ingeborg Körner, Carola Höhn, Wilfried Seyferth, Sylvia Hermann, Elisabeth Flickenschildt, Rainer Penkert, Ernst Waldow, Al Hoosman. Originally released as a motion picture in 1952. Bonus features: audio commentary by film scholars Angelica Fenner and Tobias Nagl, "Toxi and the story of race after Nazism" (PDF file) by historian Heide Fehrenbach, original film flyer with English translation, bio and filmographies, books on the movie, trailer for Brown babies: the Mischlingskinder story.
Summary:
A five-year-old girl suddenly appears on the doorstep of a well-to-do Hamburg family. The members of the multi-generational, white household react differently to the arrival of Toxi, who is black, the daughter of an African-American G.I. and a German woman who has died. Eventually, Toxi works her way into the hearts of this German family, but then her father returns, hoping to take Toxi back to America with him.
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