The Aryans
Movie | |
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Original title | The Aryans |
Country of production | Germany |
original language | German , English |
Publishing year | 2014 |
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Director | Mo Asumang |
script | Mo Asumang |
production | Andrea Ufer, Gunter Hanfgarn, Mo Asumang / MA Motion |
camera |
Susanna Salonen , Yoliswa von Dallwitz |
cut | Lena Rem |
The Aryans is a documentary by Mo Asumang from the year 2014 . The film premiered on March 16, 2014 at the Turkey / Germany Film Festival and then broadcast in 2014 on Arte and in the context of Das kleine Fernsehspiel on ZDF .
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In her film, the Afro-German presenter and filmmaker Mo Asumang embarks on a journey into the neo-Nazi scene around the world. In personal conversations she lets members of different neo-Nazi groups describe the worldview. Asumang attends NPD events in Gera, Wismar and Potsdam. In the United States , she meets with members of the Ku Klux Klan and with Tom Metzger, founder of the White Aryan Resistance . On her journey, among others in Iran , she searches for the origins of the term “ Aryans ” and for reasons for racial hatred and possible strategies for overcoming it.
Awards
- 2014: Öngören Prize for Democracy and Human Rights
- 2014: Phoenix Film Festival, World Cinema Best Documentary
- 2014: Phoenix Film Festival, World Cinema Audience Award
- 2014: WIR - Diversity Award, Film Art Festival Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
- 2014: Nomination for the Ecumenical Jury Prize at the Achtung berlin - new berlin film award for The Aryans
- 2014: Magnolia Award, Documentary Best Director, Shanghai Television Festival
- 2014: Prix Europa nominated
- 2014: German Director Prize Metropolis in the documentary category for The Aryans
- 2015: Grimme Prize nominated for The Aryans
Reviews
"Even if the roles of good and bad are very clearly divided: an educational work that is as personal as it is beneficial."
"It's an incredible, incredibly exciting film."
"A fraction of the courage of filmmaker Mo Asumang, who pulls German and American neo-Nazis in front of the camera, would have been wished for ZDF: broadcasting this important documentary research at midnight is (despite the media library) a cheek."
"Asumang confronts visitors to neo-Nazi demos [...] and other racists with emphatic naivety. This attitude is problematic because the neo-Nazis' hoped-for “self-exposure” hardly succeeds. On the contrary, they are offered a stage on which they can spread their inhuman ideology without comment. "
“Mo Asumang dares something. The dark-skinned German stands all alone at a neo-Nazi march in the midst of bald heads and asks her: "What are you demonstrating for here?" She asks very calmly, calmly - a kind of cinematic journey of discovery into the world of racism "
Web links
- The Aryans in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website
- The Aryans on the website of the Federal Agency for Civic Education
- Sandra Zistl: Mo Asumang: “Neo-Nazis took selfies with me” , interview with Mo Asumang, Focus , April 29, 2014
- Nuremberg News
Individual evidence
- ^ The Aryans - Tuesday, April 5th at 10:00 p.m. (92 min.). (No longer available online.) In: arte.tv. Arte , April 2014, archived from the original on January 11, 2016 ; Retrieved April 26, 2016 .
- ↑ 19th Film Festival Turkey / Germany 2014 in Nuremberg , accessed on March 5, 2014
- ↑ a b Phoenix Film Festival - World Cinema Audience Award ( Memento from May 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on March 5, 2014
- ↑ Oliver Creutz: The television tribunal meets: "The Aryans" - On the trail of hatred. In: stern.de. Stern , April 29, 2014, accessed April 26, 2016 .
- ↑ Peter Zander: "The Aryans" - Mo Asumang seeks contact with racists and neo-Nazis. In: morgenpost.de. Berliner Morgenpost , May 5, 2014, accessed on April 26, 2016 .
- ↑ Oliver Junge: TV review: "The Arier" on ZDF - Racial hatred is something. In: faz.net. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , May 5, 2014, accessed on April 26, 2016 .
- ^ Sophie Bose: With naivety against Nazis? "The Aryans" in the film review. In: netz-gegen-nazis.de. Netz gegen Nazis , April 28, 2014, accessed September 4, 2016 .
- ↑ Be brave and strong, October 26, 2019