Journey Back to Youth is a 2001 documentary film

Documentary film

Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

 by Russian film makers, Alexander Gutman

Alexander Gutman

Alexander Ilyich Gutman , also spelt as Alexandre Goutman and Aleksandr Gutman) is a Russian film director. During over 30 years he has shot over 50 documentary films, 13 of them as film director. A winner of numerous awards at Russian and international film festivals.He graduated from the...

 and Sergei Litviakov, an interview of four German women who tell the story of four young German girls from East Prussia

East Prussia

East Prussia is the main part of the region of Prussia along the southeastern Baltic Coast from the 13th century to the end of World War II in May 1945. From 1772–1829 and 1878–1945, the Province of East Prussia was part of the German state of Prussia. The capital city was Königsberg.East Prussia...

 placed into a Soviet labor camp

Labor camp

A labor camp is a simplified detention facility where inmates are forced to engage in penal labor. Labor camps have many common aspects with slavery and with prisons...

s by the end of World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

 according to the Stalin's decisions about forced labor of Germans in the Soviet Union

Forced labor of Germans in the Soviet Union

Forced labor of Germans in the Soviet Union was considered by the Soviet Union to be part of German war reparations for the damage inflicted by Nazi Germany on the Soviet Union during World War II. German civilians in Eastern Europe were deported to the USSR after World War II as forced laborers...

 about mobilization of Germans for reconstruction works in the USSR.

The film won the Platinum Award at the 34th International Independent Film Festival (Worldfest

WorldFest

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) in Houston, TX in 2001 and the "Gold Camera Award" at the US International Film and Video Festival in 2001.