Make or Break (2022)
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.
Directors: Falk Schuster, Mike Plitt.
| Writing | Mike Plitt | Writer |
| Production | Alexander Lahl | Producer |
| Directing | Falk Schuster | Director |
| Directing | Mike Plitt | Director |
| Camera | Falk Schuster | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Julian Quitsch | Editor |