Merkel: Anatomy of a Crisis

Merkel: Anatomy of a Crisis

118 mins | History | April 15, 2020

Angela Merkel's decision in autumn 2015 to open the borders for refugees split the country - some praised the moral stance, others criticized the surrender of sovereignty. Yet what would appear to be well-planned activity is in reality a policy of muddling along, chance, trial and error. The Driven Ones is a chronicle of the refugee crisis which shows that the political actors are being driven along, crushed between self-imposed constraints and events that have spun out of control.

Merkel: Anatomy of a Crisis

118 mins | History | April 15, 2020

Merkel: Anatomy of a Crisis
Angela Merkel's decision in autumn 2015 to open the borders for refugees split the country - some praised the moral stance, others criticized the surrender of sovereignty. Yet what would appear to be well-planned activity is in reality a policy of muddling along, chance, trial and error. The Driven Ones is a chronicle of the refugee crisis which shows that the political actors are being driven along, crushed between self-imposed constraints and events that have spun out of control.
IMDb rating 6.0
Producers RBB, Carte Blanche International
Original title Die Getriebenen
Directors Stephan Wagner
Writers Robin Alexander, Florian Oeller

Cast

Imogen Kogge

as Angela Merkel

Josef Bierbichler

as Horst Seehofer

Wolfgang Pregler

as Thomas de Maizière

Tristan Seith

as Peter Altmaier

Rüdiger Vogler

as Wolfgang Schäuble

Timo Dierkes

as Sigmar Gabriel

Walter Sittler

as Frank-Walter Steinmeier

Gisela Aderhold

as Beate Baumann

Silvina Buchbauer

as Eva Christiansen

Urs Remond

as Steffen Seibert

Uwe Preuss

as Joachim Sauer

Hendrik Heutmann

as Jens Spahn

Jürgen Fischer

as Alexander Dobrindt

Germain Wagner

as Jean-Claude Juncker

Justus Carrière

as Manfred Schmidt

Simon Licht

as Bernhard Kotsch

Oliver Urbanski

as Philipp Steinberg

Peter Raffalt

as Christoph Heusgen

Peter Kremer

as Holger Münch

Michael Benthin

as Hans-Georg Maaßen

Jörg Westphal

as Dieter Romann

Angela Jacobi

as Karoline Gernbauer

Judith Hofmann

as Emily Haber

Radu Bânzaru

as Viktor Orban

László I. Kish

as Josef Czukor

Zsolt Bács

as Janos Lázár

Bernhard Schir

as Werner Faymann

Orlando Süss

as Sebastian Kurz

Vasilis Spiliopoulos

as Alexis Tsipras

Eva Hertwig-Schink

as Karin Seehofer

Felix Hellmann

as Backhaus