Exekution: A Study of Mary (1979)

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Original Title: Exekution: A Study of Mary

Release Date: September 20, 1979

Runtime: 28 minutes

Budget: $0.0

Revenue: $0.0

Overview

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.