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Release Date:
March 24, 2025
Original Title:
Masterplan – Das Potsdamer Treffen und seine Folgen
Genres:
Documentary | TV Movie
Production Companies:
BR
MDR
NDR
RBB
SWR
Zero One Film
Production Countries:
Germany
Ratings / Certifications:
DE: 12
Runtime: 90
In November 2023, right-wing thought leaders, politicians from the AfD, CDU and Werteunion, as well as numerous entrepreneurs, met behind closed doors at the Landhaus Adlon in Potsdam. The topics discussed at the meeting were never intended to be made public. But weeks later, the media company Correctiv published the explosive contents of this conference, as investigative journalists were also present undercover. The revelations caused a stir and triggered the largest protest rallies against right-wing radicalism in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany, with more than three million people nationwide. Suddenly, Germans were discussing a word that hardly anyone had known until then: "remigration." Award-winning documentary filmmaker Volker Heise tells the story in a fact-rich, gripping, and unpretentious way, like a political thriller, bringing together the voices of those who were part of the meeting and those who exposed it to create an illuminating overall picture.
Assistant Editor:
Danis Karaisaridis
Colorist:
Stefan Engelkamp
Commissioning Editor:
Rolf Bergmann
Mirjam Dolderer
Petra Felber
Timo Großpietsch
Silke Heinz
Director:
Volker Heise
Director of Photography:
Piotr Rosołowski
Markus Zucker
Volker Heise
Editor:
Andrew Bird
Sven Heußner
Graphic Designer:
Darren Culley
Legal Services:
Bianca Krippendorf
Klaus Siekmann
Stefan von Moers
Line Producer:
Tassilo Aschauer
Original Music Composer:
Johannes Repka
Post Production Coordinator:
Stefan Gohlke
Producer:
Thomas Kufus
Bianca Krippendorf
Production Manager:
Sven Bührer
Marion Glaser
Publicist:
Heide Schürmeier
Researcher:
Antonella Falconio
Marion Glaser
Lukas Haas
Philip C. Montasser
Michael Reinhard
Conny Ziller
Sound:
Oliver Göbel
Sound Editor:
Dominik Avenwedde
Sound Re-Recording Mixer:
Dominik Avenwedde
Writer:
Volker Heise
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