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Someone to Remember
GERMANY · 1943

Someone to Remember

Robert Siodmak
maternal loss grief and denial found family generational connection displacement
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Synopsis

An elderly woman whose son disappeared years before refuses to move when her apartment building is turned into a college dormitory for male students, as she is convinced that he will return one day. She continues to live in the building after it becomes a dorm, and eventually grows attached to a troubled young student whom she comes to believe is her own grandson. When she finds out that the boy's

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