FRANK MEYER

Germany 2023 – Director(s) Leonhard Hofmann, Riccardo Dejan Jurkovic – 83 min – Spoken language: German – Subtitles: English

A peek behind mus­cles, power, and the masks of masculinity.

Lear­ning to love through cine­ma, in this case: Frank Mey­er. The docu­men­ta­ry fol­lows the for­mer body­buil­der for over ten years. He had alre­a­dy sur­vi­ved one stro­ke then.. At the start of film­ing, he pre­fers to ope­ra­te the came­ra hims­elf. But even­tual­ly, the young film­ma­kers eman­ci­pa­te them­sel­ves from Frank Mey­er’s ins­truc­tions and thus give him and the audi­ence a gift: he gets to under­stand hims­elf bet­ter and beco­mes more capa­ble of ques­tio­ning his armored masculinity.

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Germany 2023 – Director(s) Leonhard Hofmann, Riccardo Dejan Jurkovic – 83 min – Spoken language: German – Subtitles: English

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