13th German Film Festival
City:
Moscow
Cinemas:
Formula Kino Horizont
Dates:
3–8 December 2014
Арийцы
Die Arier
Country: Germany
Year: 2014
Director: Mo Asumang
Genre: documentary
Language: German, English
Translation: russian subtitles
Time: 1 hour 32 minutes
Возраст: +
A documentary in which an African-German gets to he bottom of right-wing movements worldwide - and their completely wrong interpretation of "Aryanism" - a phenomenon of the tall, blond and blue-eyed master race established by the French philosopher Gobineau, It went on with the Nazis, and still promotes hate and racial murders today. Filmmaker Mo Asumang sets out for a tour de force into the abyss of the political evil in Germany and the US. She travels to places where the real Aryans originally came from an area which is now part of Iran.THE ARYANS is a personal journey into the madness of racism during which she meets German neo-Nazis, the US leading racist, the notorious Tom Metzger and Ku Klux Klan members in the alarming twilight of the Midwest.
Awards and festivals:
Shanghai International Film Festival - Best Documentary Filmmaker
Phoenix International Film Festival - Best Documentary, Audience Award
Turkey-Germany Film Festival - Best Director
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Schedule:
6 December, Saturday