Die große Angst – Zukunft in Ostdeutschland?
Synopsis
In the 2024 elections in the eastern German states of Saxony and Thuringia, the right-wing extremist party AfD and the socio-culturally right-wing but socio-economically left-wing party BSW performed strongly. A similar result is predicted for Brandenburg. What will the enormous voter support for AfD and BSW mean for the economy, society, culture and local politics in eastern Germany in the future? Will the east of the country become increasingly ungovernable due to the decline of the established parties and the electoral successes of AfD and BSW, will the social mood change or can new compromises be found? In search of answers, the filmmakers accompanied people from Saxony, Thuringia and Brandenburg for several months, who presented their personal perspectives and life situations and gave insight into their worries, fears, wishes and expectations.
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Top cast
Anna Thalbach
Self - Narrator
Lisa Eckhart
Self - Interviewee
Matthias Quent
Self - Interviewee
Fabian Klaus
Self - Interviewee
Simone Taubenek
Self - Interviewee
Christian Piechnick
Self - Interviewee
Maximilian Steinbeis
Self - Interviewee
Martin Wanitschke
Self - Interviewee
Torsten Scholz
Self - Interviewee
Arnim Teutoburg-Weiß
Self - Interviewee