A factory outside Hamburg produces the world’s best-selling anatomical skeleton model, Stan - The Standard Man. All the copies are reproduced from the same human remains: an unknown man stored for decades behind a steel door of the factory. Who was the man who continues to haunt our classrooms and hospitals today? The search for answers uncovers a disturbing link to the dark history of anatomy during the Nazi era and to Polish forced laborers.
Format: 90 / 58 min
Producer: Stina Gardell / Mantaray Film
Directors: Tomas Stark & Erik Lavesson
Co-directors: Weronika Mliczewska
Director of Photography: Piotr Rosolowski
Co-producer: Ya Man Studio / Weronika Mliczewska (PO), Sonntag Pictures / Sara Stockmann (DK)
Pitched at: Doc Leipzig, Nordisk Panorama
Release: 2028
World sales: Rise and Shine (DE)
Financiers & Partners: Swedish Film Institute, Polish Film Institute, Danish Film Institute, Nordic Film and TV Fund, Eurimages, Malik Benjelloul Stipendium, The Swedish Arts Grants Committee, Helge Ax:son Johnsons Foundation, Filmbasen, SVT, DR, YLE, TVC, LTV and TVP.
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