Director
Polly Steele
Starring
Lucy Boynton, Jodhi May, Juliet Stevenson, Stanley Weber, Karin Bertling, Eva Magyar
Certificate
PG
Run Time
100 mins
Release Year
2016
Country of Origin
UK
Language
English
Director of Photography: Michael Wood
Editor: Daniel Goddard
Produced by: David Broder, Lizzie Pickering, Polly Steele
Music: Philip Selway
Screenplay by: Polly Steele
Production Designer: Alexandra Walker
Director Bio
Polly Steele
P&I - Director Bio
Polly Steele is an award-winning UK-based, independent filmmaker, renowned for her ability to tell the most sensitive stories. Her documentary work has included BAFTA nominated Tantrums & Tiaras, the inside story of Elton John’s life (ITV), Kofi Annan, The Eye of the Storm (BBC), Ewan McGregor, A Scot in the Arctic, and Grierson-nominated The World’s Youngest Surgeon.
Let Me Go
Part of the Best of British Strand
Generational trauma lies at the core of this real-life drama, developed from Helga Schneider’s story about being abandoned by her mother Traudi in Poland in 1941 when she was just four years old. Set in 2000, the film sees Helga (the wonderful Juliet Stevenson) travel to vienna to see her ailing mother, accompanied by her grand daughter (Lucy Boynton) who thought Traudi was dead. Generations of women come together to face the dark secrets of the past, as an unrepentant Traudi unravels the darkest of family secrets.