Make or Break

Make or Break — Plot

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.

• Release date
• October 19, 2022
• Runtime
• 8 min
• Genres
• Animation, Documentary
• Director
• Falk Schuster