Titus & Alfonso
Titus & Alfonso
Marek, a small-time vaudeville performer, welcomes two children back from school to join their parents, who also work in vaudeville, in the deprived year of 1939. He gently tries to teach them about the deportation of their mother. Marek saves the life of his drunken father, who has destroyed his ventriloquist’s dummy in despair. Made up and costumed, he himself slips into their role and “throws” him the performance.
Some time later, in 1943, the year of the war, the two meet again. In a clinic, near Krakow, where the little boy apparently works, the ventriloquist performs on the occasion of a Christmas party. The children are also back, accompanying their father during the deprived war years.
Marek makes a mistake out of sheer shock and joy at the reunion – he spills a glass of champagne on the lap of the wife of a mysterious guest, which earns him the full wrath of the staff doctor. At dawn, he has the guards clear Marek’s room. But the soldiers find its bed empty. Despite the fact that they are following the ventriloquist’s truck, they cannot prevent him from paying Marek back for saving his life in the same way he did back then.
Marek hides in the children’s big teddy bear and is able to give a good turn to his destiny. Marek, the last remaining inmate of a former asylum for the handicapped, who was abused by the staff doctor to investigate the causes of short stature, thus escaped deportation to Auschwitz.
Credits
Cast: Axel Prahl, Manni Laudenbach, Max Volkert Martens, Arne Gentzsch, Andi Wittmann, Simone von Zglinicki, Klaus Kowatsch, Alfred Hartung
Screenplay: Martin Lehwald
Director: Martin Lehwald
Camera: Axel Fischer
Editing: Heike Ebner
Production design: Carola Gauster
Costume: Ingrida Bendzuk
Make-up: Julia Stefanie Lechner
Sound: David Ziegler
Production Management: Frank Zahl, Anita Schenk
Production management: Marcos Kantis
Producer: Martin Lehwald, Marcos Kantis, Michal Pokorny
Station: 13th Street
Supporters: Filmstiftung NRW, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg
Production year: 2007
Festivalteilnahmen
- Lakedance International Film Festival 2009
