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Make or Break (2022)
Directed by Falk Schuster, Mike Plitt
Animation, Documentary · 8m
Because his single mother criticised the state, Alex was sent to a special children’s home at the age of eleven, in order to shape him – like almost 500,000 children in the GDR – into a “socialist personality”. He escaped and ended up as a punishment at the Torgau Closed Juvenile Detention Centre, more prison than social institution. His life was now dominated by military drill and violence … Reduced rotoscope images follow Alex’s memories and show how the trauma affects him even today.
Crew
- Director
- Falk Schuster, Mike Plitt
- Writer
- Mike Plitt
- Director of Photography
- Falk Schuster
- Editor
- Julian Quitsch
- Producer
- Alexander Lahl
Details
- Original title
- Biegen und Brechen
- Release date
- 2022-10-19
- Runtime
- 8m
- Genres
- Animation, Documentary
- Original language
- DE
- Spoken languages
- German
- Countries
- Germany
- Production
- mobyDOK