Exekution: A Study of Mary (1979)

Plot Summary

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.

Full Cast & Characters

Heinz Emigholz

Narrator (voice)

Berryt Bohlen

Polo Espinoza

Vroni Hinkelbein

La Milli

Magdalena Montezuma

Raphael

Frank Ripploh

Frank Soletti

Lindsay Turner

Ellen Umlauf

Narrator (voice)

Director & Crew

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