Wuj Měrćin – moler
The Painter with the Lime Leaf
Rather than use his surname, he signed all of his works with the linden leave, an object of great symbolic importance for the Sorbs. “Every Sorbian child knows that Master Nowak-Neumann is the creator of all well-intentioned dwarfs and kobolds” states the film, dubbed in both German and Sorbian in order to familiarize audiences in East Germany with the artist’s work, even though his drawings were by then already well-known to practically every child across the GDR. An affectionate portrait of an artist whose images of bulbous-nosed Sorbian legends shaped the imaginations of generations of children, presented to younger audiences with the help of an animated kobold. GL
Pro Re | Doc. | Farbe / colour
Toni Bruk
Michael Börner
Heinz Kaiser
Svetozár Štúr
Toni Bruk - born in 1947. He studied literature at Leipzig University and at the Charles University in Prague. After working as a director for the DEFA Studio in Dresden from 1980 to 1990, he has been a director and studio manager at SORABIA Filmstudio in Bautzen since 1991.
WENN SPUREN SICHTBAR WERDEN (1983, short, doc)
UNRUHE (1985, short)
JASNA A KRASNA (1999)
DER ALTE MANN UND SEINE INSEL (2005, TV, FFC 2006)
