Dietrich Brüggemann, director of “Heil” #fce2016

April 27, 2016

Dietrich Brüggemann, director of "Heil" #fce2016 fredfilmradio

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Dietrich Brüggemann, director of Heil from the Lecce European Film Festival 2016.

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With his film Heil, director Dietrich Brüggemann has shown people and international audiences that it is possible to portray Neo-Nazis, their misconception and crazy ideas through satire. It is possible to make a political film by not talking politics. With Burn After Reading and the Three Stooges in mind, Bruggemann reveals how satire was the only possible format for him to portray Neo-Nazis life stories of contemporary Germany.

The film was showcased in the new section of Festival del Cinema Europeo di Lecce: European Comedy.

HEIL: Welcome to Prittwitz. The acclaimed Afro-German author Sebastian Klein is on a reading tour in the East German backwater and is given a fitting welcome by local neo-Nazis: a blow to the head. Sebastian promptly loses his memory and parrots everything people tell him. Nina, Sebastian’s pregnant girlfriend in Berlin, is highly agitated. Without further ado she travels to Prittwitz and teams up with the village policeman Sascha to track down her boyfriend. He is in the hands of the neo-Nazis and their leader Sven and feels right at home among them. Smirking, he appears on talk shows and mouths the slogans that Sven whispers to him. A “blackie” railing against integration – the public goes crazy. And Sven sees himself finally on his way to becoming an opinion leader…

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