Film

Biegen und Brechen (2022)

• 19 oktober 2022
• 8m

• Animatie
• Documentaire

Overzicht

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.

Regisseurs

Falk Schuster, Mike Plitt

Scenaristen

Mike Plitt