Jamel - Lauter Widerstand

Jamel - Lauter Widerstand

68 mins | Documentary, TV Movie | Nov. 19, 2024

The small village of Jamel in the northwest of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is considered a right-wing extremist stronghold. In the past, neo-Nazis have deliberately moved here. Using right-wing slogans and symbols, they openly claim dominance over the village. In the middle of it all: the artist couple Birgit and Horst Lohmeyer. In search of a rural idyll, the Lohmeyers moved to the village in 2004, underestimating the situation there, where they encountered right-wing extremist thinking and rejection, even threats. Instead of allowing themselves to be driven away, they make a statement against it every year with the "Jamel Rocks the Forester" music festival. After their barn was set on fire, they and their festival received prominent support from the German music scene. The documentary shows that the conditions in the village are not an isolated case and that folkish landgrabs by right-wing extremists are a widespread problem, but also how music can help fight for democracy.

Jamel - Lauter Widerstand

68 mins | Documentary, TV Movie | Nov. 19, 2024

Jamel - Lauter Widerstand
The small village of Jamel in the northwest of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is considered a right-wing extremist stronghold. In the past, neo-Nazis have deliberately moved here. Using right-wing slogans and symbols, they openly claim dominance over the village. In the middle of it all: the artist couple Birgit and Horst Lohmeyer. In search of a rural idyll, the Lohmeyers moved to the village in 2004, underestimating the situation there, where they encountered right-wing extremist thinking and rejection, even threats. Instead of allowing themselves to be driven away, they make a statement against it every year with the "Jamel Rocks the Forester" music festival. After their barn was set on fire, they and their festival received prominent support from the German music scene. The documentary shows that the conditions in the village are not an isolated case and that folkish landgrabs by right-wing extremists are a widespread problem, but also how music can help fight for democracy.
Producers Südwestrundfunk, Bayerischer Rundfunk, RBB, NDR, ARD Kultur, Labo M
Original title Jamel - Lauter Widerstand
Directors Martin Groß
Writers Martin Groß

Cast

Horst Lohmeyer

as Self - Portrait Subject & Interviewee

Birgit Lohmeyer

as Self - Portrait Subject & Interviewee

Humberto Pereira

as Self - Interviewee

Herbert Grönemeyer

as Self - Interviewee

Smudo

as Self - Interviewee

Campino

as Self - Interviewee

Bela B.

as Self - Interviewee

Olli Schulz

as Self - Interviewee

Claudia Roth

as Self - Interviewee

Andreas von Holst

as Self - Interviewee

Felix Kummer

as Self - Interviewee

Martin Vandreier

as Self - Interviewee

Kolja Podkowik

as Self - Interviewee

Benjamin Griffey

as Self - Interviewee

David Mayonga

as Self - Interviewee

Franziska Binder

as Self - Interviewee

Felix Schönfuss

as Self - Interviewee

Wallis Bird

as Self - Interviewee

Per Ole Hein

as Self - Interviewee

René Unger

as Self - Interviewee

Ebow

as Self - Interviewee

Peppi Ahrens

as Self - Interviewee

Gwendolyn Schneider-Rothhaar

as Self - Interviewee

Maik Weichert

as Self - Interviewee

Sven Krüger

as Self - Interviewee

Daniel Trepsdorf

as Self - Interviewee

Luise Nagel

as Self - Interviewee

Reiner Seidlitz

as Self - Interviewee

Friedel Helms-Ferlemann

as Self - Interviewee

Rachel Hanf

as Self - Interviewee

Fabienne Fronek

as Self - Interviewee

Jane Rackow

as Self - Interviewee

Marco

as Self - Interviewee

Thomas D

as Self

Michael Beck

as Self

Marteria

as Self

Farin Urlaub

as Self

Andreas Rieke

as Self

Jan Gorkow

as Self

Bosse

as Self