Description
Synopsis:
A studio room. Puppets. Frank Karbstein. Reminiscent, reflective, playful, narrating. The 1980s of the GDR – the group around the puppeteer Frank is arrested for distributing pacifistic leaflets. After being sentenced to imprisonment, the defendants are offered the opportunity to go to the West through a secret buy out of political prisoners. Frank stays. But the question remains: Who betrayed them?
About the director:
Luisa Bäde was born in 1988 in Gera/GDR. After studying “Digital Film and Animation” in Cologne, she worked until 2015, mainly as an assistant director and produced her own short films. In 2014 she began studying at the Academy of Media Arts, Cologne, with a focus on film directing. Her cinematic and photographic works move fluidly between documentary and fictional. In 2017/2018 she studied at the Universidad National de Colombia in Bogota. As Long As You Still Have Arms (2019) is her first feature-length documentary.