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Founded in 2001, the INSTITUTE OF DOCUMENTARY FILM (IDF) is a non-profit training and networking centre based in Prague, Czech Republic, focused on the support of East European documentary films and their wider promotion. Our activities support filmmakers through all stages of completion – development, funding, production, post-production, and distribution. We aim at individual filmmakers (tailored consultations), groups of carefully selected professionals with projects or films (Ex Oriente Film, East European Forum, East Silver, Doc Launch, etc.), broader professional community (East Doc Platform), as well as the general public (portal www.DOKweb.net). We closely work with key int. festivals, broadcasters, distributors, sales agents, markets, or training initiatives and serve as the GATEWAY TO EAST EUROPEAN DOCUMENTARY FILM.

Director
Wiktoria Szymańska
Original idea
Wiktoria Szymańska
Producer
Estelle Robin-You
Production company
Les films du balibari ...
Director of photography
Wojciech Staroń
IDF Events
2012 East European Forum
WWW
www.exerciseoflife.com
Financial Support
Conseil Général de Loire-Atlantique ...

The Man who made Angels Fly

Exercise of Life, France, Sweden, 2012, 52 min, 70 min, 70 min, Digi Beta, Arts and Culture

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There are stories constantly inspiring our imagination. There are unforgettable people who become legends of our times. We read about them, we admire them and, usually, we recognise their genius only after they are gone… Michael Meschke is not one of them, he is among the greatest living marionette masters in the world. His marionette masterpieces are a pretext allowing to delve into his own life and the stories behind his numerous international collaborations. He created the Marionetteatern and has been the cultural ambassador of Sweden for over 60 years. His theatre introduced the art of puppetry to modern Europe and brought back into the universal dimension characters like Antigone, Don Quixote, Odysseus, Faust, so significant to human nature and, at the same time, symbolising the struggle of virtue against vice in the last hundred years. Through his story, sketched on the canvas of modern history, we can touch on the most important values of humanity, as well as simple, essential human emotions: love, fear of death and unlimited passion, choices and regrets…

Director:

Wiktoria Szymańska

Producer:

Estelle Robin-You

Original idea:

Wiktoria Szymańska

Dramaturgy:

Wiktoria Szymańska

Director of photography:

Wojciech Staroń

Languages:

English, French, Swedish