Das Deutsche Volk

Marcin Wierzchowski, DE 2025, 132 min, German/Romanian/Turkish/English OmeU

As a long-term observation of the events following the right-wing terrorist attack in Hanau on February 19, 2020, "The German People" is a film that always remains at the side of the bereaved families and survivors. Interspersed with encounters with political representatives, it gives space to the pain of those affected and bears witness to their struggle to draw consequences from the racist murders. The fact that this seems more necessary than ever - five years later and against the backdrop of the current rampant debates about belonging in this country - is the real scandal in the aftermath of the attack. And so the target group addressed in the film's title is repeatedly challenged by the montage to confront its own deep-rooted prejudices.