27. dokumentART
films & future
Great-uncle Menko was an adventurer and storyteller who brought home miraculous tales of magicians and ghosts from Madagascar - and bizarre artefacts. One was the rare and valuable giant egg of the extinct elephant bird, which eventually disappears from his estate. Looking in archives, collections and cellars around the world, the filmmaker goes on a journey to find this unique specimen. A personal search for evidence - full of circumstantial leads and speculation - turns into an essayistic crime story that takes on bio-piracy, diamond smuggling and German colonial history.