Family Business

You're somewhere in your late forties, approaching fifties. You have a family and a job and a career. You have elderly parents who need to be taken care of – but you can't do that, because you don't have time. You also don't have the money for a comfortable nursing home, or your parents don't like the idea of living in an institution. What is there to be done? Usually the answer is to get paid help for the job – someone affordable, which usually means trained personnel from abroad, more often than not from Central or Eastern Europe. This is what Family Business depicts: The intricacies of those very intimate labor relations that mirror only too often the political relations between the countries, in this case Germany and Poland. The subject matter might sound grim, but the film proves to be most educative, highly enlightening and very entertaining due to Christiane Büchner's relaxed, generous and genuinely curious way of looking at the world.
Olaf Müller (DocPoint)