Chinese Checkers (Halmaspiel)
Intro Movie
Chinese Checkers (Halmaspiel)
Language
DE
Subtitle
DE, EN, FR, CZ
Genre
Animated Documentary
Country
Germany
Year
2017
Director
Betina Kuntzsch
Length
15 minutes
“Chinese Checkers” uses animated found objects from a family store to recount the life of a fashion designer in the GDR. In a film collage of toy figures, fabric flowers, fashion drawings, patterns, newspaper images, autobiographical notes, paper bags and legal files, as well as medical images, Betina Kuntzsch recounts her mother’s life - a 20th century biography: growing up in the Nazi era, teenage years in postwar Germany, the building of the Wall, and life in the GDR as well as in a united Germany. It is a story of escaping and conforming.
Image © Betina Kuntzsch