Forgetting Dad

  • 7.9 10
  • 2008
  • 83min
Forgetting Dad
  • Original Title: Forgetting Dad

A man suffers a minor car accident, and a week later constructs a new identity, claiming he can't "remember" being a father. Nearly twenty years later, his amnesia persists, yet no brain damage or physical cause are ever found. Enthralling and thought-provoking, "Forgetting Dad" offers an award-winning case study of dissociation, parental abandonment, and family enmenshment in mental illness.

Forgetting Dad

Production Companies

Hoferichter & Jacobs GmbH


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