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The documentary takes the time to show the staying power of the exceptional politician Angela Merkel and explores fundamental questions: Was the Chancellor a guarantor of stability in stormy times or is she responsible for political stagnation? What does she think about the refugee situation in 2015? How does she assess her climate policy? Did she ultimately fail as a coronavirus fighter? As a crisis chancellor, was she more of an advocate of the moment? Where did her resilience come from and what drove her?
With the documentary ANGELA MERKEL - IM LAUF DER ZEIT, directed by Torsten Körner, the BROADVIEW Pictures team embarks on a biographical and political search for clues that stretches from Templin to Washington, from the building of the Wall to the fall of the Wall and beyond. It traces the mental patterns and historical forces that transformed the young physicist from the GDR into a leading politician at breathtaking speed.
ANGELA MERKEL - IM LAUF DER ZEIT is one of the most personal portraits of the former German Chancellor. In addition to the Chancellor herself, who was still in office at the time of the interview, the generation that has never experienced another person at the helm of Germany than Angela Merkel also has its say. In addition, exclusive international interviewees such as Barack Obama, Theresa May and Christine Lagarde report from the innermost circle of "Power in the Making".
First broadcast:
February 22, 2022 at 8:15 pm on ARTE
Funded by:
Film- und Medienstiftung NRW
