Section: POLSKIE HORYZONTY: The Female Gaze

Pflaumen

Plums

Mark Ther
Czech Republic, 2011, 16 Min

Autumn of 1946 in the Sudetenland. Ludwig is running as if his life depended on it; together with his mother he has been ordered to head to Germany. He doesn't want to leave these familiar surroundings however, in this intimate portrait that blends elements of video art and feature film.

Mark Ther

The destiny of the Germans in the aftermath of the Second World War is a recurring topic in the work of Czech video artist Mark Ther, and this for a good reason; as a child he learned that his grandparents are Sudeten Germans. Here protagonist Ludwig is also still a child, whose horror at being expelled from his homeland we experience at close quarters. We observe his facial expressions, hear variations in his breathing and heartbeat and catch a glimpse of the white band with the 'N', with which the Germans were marked out for discrimination. For Ludwig however there was worse to come. CF

Filmformat
HD File | Farbe / colour
Drehbuch
Mark Ther
Kamera
Erik Sikora, Jan Vidlička
Ton
Martin Hejl
Schnitt
Max Fisher
Ausstattung
Mark Ther
Musik
Marie Filomena Nowak
Darsteller
Otto Urban Jr., Zdeňka Saletová
Produzent
Mark Ther
Produktion
Mark Ther
Kontakt
Mark Ther
Chotouňská 477/8
108 00 Prague
Czech Republic
Tel.: +420.60.575.11 15
mark.ther@yahoo.com
www.markther.com
Mark Ther

Mark Ther - born 1979 in Prague, ČSSR. Until 1998 he attended the Václav Hollar High School of Applied Arts and Graphic Design in Prague. In 2005, he graduated in painting and video art from the Academy of Fine Arts Prague. His oeuvre highlights historic and sexual taboo topics of the Czech society.

Movies
M. C. A A. H. (2001, short)
MY PLEASURE (2003, short)
DER KLEINE BLONDE UND SEIN ROTER KOFFER (2005, short)
WAS FÜR EIN MATERIAL (2007, short)
DAS WANDERNDE STERNLEIN (2012, short)
ENKEL (2013, short)