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Führer Ex

2002 · 105 min

A grim, unflinching descent into hatred and survival, offering little comfort but a haunting look at how ideology corrupts.

Directed by
Winfried Bonengel
Genres
Drama
Starring
Christian Blümel, Aaron Hildebrand, Jule Flierl
Tagline
Violence. Feeling. Being caught.
Overview
Ingo Hasselbach, whose parents were Communist Party members in East Germany during his childhood, has lived at both ends of the political seesaw. The question of how people reach a change of heart is a profound one; Hasselbach describes the external forces that led to his founding Germany's first neo-Nazi political party and the internal ones that led him away from it five years later.

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Directed by
Winfried Bonengel
Genres
Drama
Starring
Christian Blümel, Aaron Hildebrand, Jule Flierl
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  • identity
  • isolation
  • violence
  • betrayal
  • redemption
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  • prison
  • big city
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  • true story
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Genres
drama
Directed by
Winfried Bonengel
Written by
Douglas Graham, Winfried Bonengel
Starring
Christian Blümel, Aaron Hildebrand, Jule Flierl, Harry Baer, Dieter Laser, Henning Peker, Matthias Freihof, Detlef Kapplusch
Music
Loek Dikker
Cinematography
Frank Barbian
Runtime
105 min
Country
Germany, Italy
Languages
German

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