Films by Simon Brückner

Germany 2022, 110 min
by Simon Brückner

The feature documentary A GERMAN PARTY shows inside views of the AfD. It delves deep into the working lives of the party’s politicians and officials. The audience is right in the middle of the political action and experiences the struggles for direction in the party, the rebellion of its supporters against a „decadent establishment“. We experience the AfD’s own antics, its resentments, worlds of ideas and self-dramatizations.The party’s continued drift to the right proves to be just as real as t

Germany 2015, 112 min
by Simon Brückner

The psychologist Peter Brückner has been a lot of things in his life: a 'half-Jew' and a runaway, an underground activist and a Wehrmacht soldier, a communist with party-ban, a father and a family refugee, a democrat and an enemy of the constitution, last but not least the first tenured university professor banned from teaching. He died in 1982 hailed by the protest generation of 1968 as their beloved scholar. His heritage includes the headstrong social psychology of liberation. At the time of h