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World Festival of Animated Film /
5 to 10 June 2023
World Festival of Animated Film / 5 to 10 June 2023
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Biegen und Brechen / Make or Break

WORLD PANORAMA 2

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Biegen und Brechen / Make or Break


Mike Plitt, Falk Schuster

Germany / 2022 / 8' 6''



Screenings


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Tuesday, 06. 06.,
Cinema SC, 11:00 h
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Wednesday, 07. 06.,
Theatre &TD, 22:00 h


Synopsis


Alex grows up in the GDR era with his single mother, the two make a good team. When his mother publicly criticises the state, the youth welfare authorities decide to send Alex to a children's home. He longs for his family and makes several escape attempts. As punishment, he is sent to the Closed Juvenile Detention Centre Torgau, the only one of its kind in the country.

Mike Plitt


Mike Plitt is a cultural historian, author, director and concept developer who works on animation movies, tv documentaries and digital storytelling formats. His first animadoc Up here, with the White Gods (co-directed with Jalal Maghout and Alexander Lahl) won the Filmfestival Wiesbaden Award for Best German Animation. He lives in Berlin with his family and is always on the lookout for a good/important story to tell.

 

Falk Schuster


Falk Schuster lives and works in Halle (Saale). His film Die Weite suchen was awarded the main prize at the Filmfest Dresden in 2016, as well as the ARD Programme Award for Documentary Film in 2018. Since 2014, he has held teaching positions at the Kunsthochschule Halle and the HFF Munich and has been a professor for animated film at the University of Applied Sciences in Wismar since 2022.

 

Director

Mike Plitt, Falk Schuster


Production

Mobydok GmbH


Screenplay

Mike Plitt


Compositing

Julian Quitsch, Falk Schuster


Sound

Hannes Schulze


Music

Hannes Schulze


Editing

Julian Quitsch


Animation

Falk Schuster, Alexander Schmidt


categories

WORLD PANORAMA 2