Films by Benedikt Schwarzer

2018, 80 min
by Benedikt Schwarzer

Leo Wagner was a co-founder of the CSU and a member of the German Federal Parliament in Bonn. During the day, the wartime generation of politicians did their duty at the political front of the Cold War, at night they relaxed in Cologne’s bars with women and champagne. The families left at home were often a façade. For Leo, this way of life came at a cost. He became involved in dubious affairs and contacts with the Stasi.Now, his grandson and film maker Benedikt Schwarzer exposes the political an

Germany 2013
by Narges Kalhor, Benedikt Schwarzer

The Iranian filmmaker Narges Kalhor, daughter of a former advisor of Ahmadinejad's, is living in exile in Germany for four years. When she hears about the fellow Iranian rapper Shahin Najafi, who is living himself in exile in Germany, faces death threats and has to hide because of one of his songs, she doesn't hesitate and has to find him. On her search she encounters fear everywhere. Narges Kalhor herself has to face her inconvenient memories of suppression, hatred and anger of the past in Iran