Volksverreter

Nov 22 2021 N/A 1h 36m
Documentary

“We will reclaim our country and our people,” a leading figure in the right-wing populist party Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) tells his party colleagues on Bundestag election night in 2017. They are celebrating as the AfD, founded four years earlier, surges into the German parliament with 94 seats, instantly making it the third largest party. The Voice of the People follows four MPs—all men—for three years as they seek to extend their power.

Plot

In 2017 for the first time in german post war history a right wing party gains access to the German Federal Parliament, forming the biggest opposition party. Over the period of three years the filmmaker has portrayed four of them. The camera follows them very closely when they create their content by mincing words and when they unfold their opinions by the use of social media and by directly speaking to the people in pubs and on the streets. Thus the viewer/spectator is getting a very rare look behind the curtains of the political circus as such and especially of the mechanisms of populism. Nevertheless, this film is a portrait of a society in which image is everything.

Written by

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Directed by

Andreas Wilcke

Cast

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Production Countries

Germany

Languages

Deutsch

Awards

1 nomination

Scores
# of Votes
10
Average Rating
6.7 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA