Brothers (2017)

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Movie
Original title brothers
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Country of production Germany
original language German , Arabic , English
Publishing year 2017
length 2 × 90 minutes
Rod
Director Züli Aladağ
script Kristin Derfler ,
Züli Aladağ based on the book by Kristin Derfler
music Matthias Weber ,
Florian Tessloff
camera Roland Stuprich
occupation

Brothers is a two-part German television film from 2017 . It was shown on November 22, 2017 in the first TV program of ARD .

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After a phase of personal disorientation, the German computer science student Jan Welke falls into the clutches of militant Salafists and converts to Islam . In the course of this development he travels to Syria to fight in the civil war there on the side of the terrorist militia Islamic State . Jan later returns to Germany with the aim of having his own serious terrorist attack. In the end, however, he prevents this project at a high price by shooting his accomplices and then going to prison.

Part 1

The student, who lives between the lecture hall and the club without any noteworthy inner involvement, has grasped a great inner emptiness; unconsciously he longs for a new truth that can give him meaning and purpose. Jan's roommate Tariq al-Jabari, a doctor, has very immediate problems: his parents and his younger brother are trapped as civilians in the hotly contested Syrian Aleppo . Only sister Samia makes it to Germany and is now hoping for a residence permit as part of an asylum application . Jan stands up for her and fails - the traumatized young woman is supposed to return to Bulgaria , where the authorities have already recorded her.

When Jan meets the Bosnian Salafist Abadin Hasanovic, he is fascinated by the ease with which he discusses the questions that concern Jan with him. Jan doesn't want to know anything about Islam at first. But with Hasanovic and his fellow believers he finds community, calm and orientation. The men are proud to see themselves as the "al-Ghurabaa", the strangers in the world. The feeling of strangeness, which Jan also feels, is not a flaw for Hasanovic and his brothers, but a distinction - an alleged sign of “awakening to the truth”. Jan begins to study Hasanovic's sermons intensively and converts.

He now wants to campaign against the supposed enemies of his new community, against those who - as Jan believes from now on - lead a useless, selfish life and against Syria's dictator Assad , whose soldiers threaten the lives of Tariq's family in Aleppo. Jan persuades Tariq to let Abadin Hanasovic help him to get the rest of his family out of Syria. Thanks to Hasanovic's connections, the two can travel to Syria via Anatolia . At an IS checkpoint, Jan is arrested and kidnapped by the fighters in front of Tariq.

Part 2

Jan is brought to an IS base near the highly contested city of Al-Bab and trained there as a terrorist. He is now going into battle with his “brothers”. Meanwhile, Tariq manages to get his parents out of Syria. He continues to believe that Jan was kidnapped by ISIS.

Together with his new brothers, Jan burns his German passport , symbolically breaking the bridges behind him. At IS he experiences fellowship with the "brothers" who, like himself, profess jihad and swear an oath on their leader. But he also has terrible experiences that at times call into question his decision to fight in Syria. He sees how the IS people brutally murder deserters from within their own ranks and how the leader also makes cruel examples of Syrian civilians in the occupied territory who have only minimally bowed to the rules of IS.

When Turkish armed forces were able to completely conquer the region around Al-Bab through a military offensive , Jan was freed as an apparent prisoner of IS and flown to Germany. While he leads a reasonably regular life in Germany and even resumes contact with his father, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Tariq, is working on him. In return for his information, his family receives a residence permit in Germany. Not only the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, but also Tariq has ever greater doubts as to whether Jan was really a prisoner of IS, as he claims, or whether he is planning an attack in Germany. Jan gathers four IS fighters around him and prepares an assassination attempt with mass murder on Stuttgart's Schloßplatz . When they want to start their project with the IS riot cry, Jan surprisingly shoots the four accomplices, he himself is arrested.

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