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Schulvorstellung - Die Arier
Credits
Name: Schulvorstellung - Die Arier
Country: Deutschland
Format: DCP
Color: color
Language : OF deutsch
Duration: 45 Minuten
Direction: Asumang, Mo
Screenplay: Asumang, Mo
Actor: Asumang, Mo
Guest: Asumang, Mo
Abstract
Never before has anyone dared to cinematically focus concretely on the subject of Aryans even though in Germany, people of different religions, colours, or sexual orientations have been, and continue to be, persecuted and murdered under the alleged label of Aryans. Afro-German director Mo Asumang embarks on a personal journey attempting to figure out what is behind the idea of a master race. She meets pseudo-Aryans at Nazi demonstrations, travels to meet the true Aryans of Iran, and meets with the notoriously racist Ku Klux Klan in the United States. The documentary DIE ARIER is a tour de force, peering insightfully into the abyss of racism.
(fi lm-distribution press kit) Mo Asumang told the Nürnberger Nachrichten newspaper in an interview: Every racist can be checkmated relatively quickly if you dont meet him with counter-hatred. That takes away any possibility that his image of the enemy can remain. The publications film critic remarked that with her disarmingly open manner, Mo Asumang manages a deeper look into the soul of racism. She shows how it
is motivated primarily by fear, the feeling of powerlessness and the search for protection within a group, just as many scientists have argued. Yet in the direct confrontation that Asumang dares to present, DIE ARIER is a rare, evocative, marvellously made document.