Biegen und Brechen

Filmstill Make or Break

Make or Break

Biegen und Brechen
Falk Schuster, Mike Plitt
German Competition Short Film 2022
Animated Film
Germany
2022
8 minutes
German
Subtitles: 
English

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.

Luc-Carolin Ziemann

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Director
Falk Schuster, Mike Plitt
Script
Mike Plitt
Cinematographer
Falk Schuster
Editor
Julian Quitsch
Producer
Max Mönch, Alexander Lahl
Sound
Hannes Schulze
Score
Hannes Schulze
Animation
Julian Quitsch, Alexander Schmidt, Falk Schuster
Nominated for: Gedanken Aufschluss Prize, mephisto 97.6 Audience Award