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Execution: A Story of Mary (1979)
Directed by Elfi Mikesch
Overview
This film is in effect a slideshow of exquisite single photographic images in sparkling black and white, representing Mikesch’s own version of Mary Stuart. “The drama of a woman who attempted a kind of liberal emancipation in a time of upheaval, but got caught in the snares of men,” in her words. Confronted with layers and layers of conflicting information about “how it really was” Mikesch decided not to try to be a historian, but to radicalise the narrative and condense it into striking images of passion, power, love, pain and death.
Length 28 minutes
Actors
Heinz Emigholz | Berryt Bohlen | Polo Espinoza | Vroni Hinkelbein | La Milli | Magdalena Montezuma | Raphael | Frank Ripploh | Frank Soletti | Lindsay Turner | Ellen Umlauf