Make or Break2022
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.
- Released
- 19. 10. 2022
- Runtime
- 8 min
- Genres
- Animation, Documentary
- Certification
- NO
- Country, language
- DE · DE