Synopsis
The feature documentary A GERMAN PARTY shows inside views of the new German right-wing party AfD. It delves deep into the working lives of politicians and officials whose party repeatedly drew attention in the past for cases of suspected far-right extremism. The audience is right in the middle of the political action and experiences the struggles for direction in the populist party as well as the rebellion of its supporters against a "decadent establishment". We experience the AfD's own antics, its resentments, worlds of ideas and self-dramatizations. Some elements of the party became a target for surveillance of the Secret Service while the party's drift to the far-right proves to be just as real as the existing dreams of coalitions and participation in government. Demagogues and tacticians encounter offended conservatives, opponents of the zeitgeist, and political beginners in search of the very different. As the director and DOP, Simon Brückner came closer to his protagonists over the years of filming than any journalist could do through everyday reporting. What's extraordinary about this film is the exclusive access to numerous politicians and committees at all levels of the AfD. The film works without interviews and does not comment on what it depicts. Therefore, it challenges its audience, to make up their minds on what is shown. It offers a complex experience from a world that would normally be impossible to enter.
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Director
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Simon Brückner
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Producer
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Hubertus Siegert
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Screenwriter
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Simon Brückner
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Genre
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Documentary
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Original Language
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German
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Runtime
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1h 50m
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