The Aryans

Movie
Original title	The Aryans
Country of production	Germany
original language	German , English
Publishing year	2014
Rod
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 .

content

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."

- Oliver Creutz in stern.de

"It's an incredible, incredibly exciting film."

- Peter Zander in Berliner Morgenpost

"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."

- Oliver Junge in the FAZ

"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. "

- Sophie Bose on netz-gegen-nazis.de

“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 "

- Nicole Richter in church in WDR 2

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

[1] 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 .

[2] 19th Film Festival Turkey / Germany 2014 in Nuremberg , accessed on March 5, 2014

[pfp2014-3] Phoenix Film Festival - World Cinema Audience Award ( Memento from May 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on March 5, 2014

[4] Oliver Creutz: The television tribunal meets: "The Aryans" - On the trail of hatred. In: stern.de. Stern , April 29, 2014, accessed April 26, 2016 .

[5] 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 .

[6] 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 .

[7] 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 .

[8] Be brave and strong, October 26, 2019