The Man Who Made Angels Fly

Once upon a time, a little boy escaped the chaos of war in order to seek refuge in an enchanted universe full of lifeless puppets. Having spent his entire life bringing them to life, Michael Meschke –one of the most celebrated puppeteers in the world– takes a walk down memory lane as he pulls his favorite puppets out of storage and dusts them off, one by one. At 82 years of age, he has built one of the most impressive puppet collections known to man, populated by dolls that rarely see the light of day, which never fails to break his heart. One of his biggest concerns, as he reaches the final stretch of his long and fruitful career, is what will happen to his wooden children once he has given up the stage. Fragments of his past merge with the present as Meschke looks the future in the eye in a poetic documentary that’s unlike anything you have ever seen before. A biopic only by name, it infiltrates the heart and soul of a great artist, equally divided between his beloved puppets, be it Antigone, Don Quixote or the Devil himself…