If the title of Simon Brückner’s new documentary conjures images of Bavarian beer halls or seedy nights at Kit Kat, don’t get your hopes up. There is an ample amount of beer in A German Party, and even the occasional modest beer hall, but the lasting effect of Brückner’s film is far more sobering. A German Party is documentary as political procedural: engrossing, depressingly comic, and never less than concerning, it charts two years in the political ecosystem of the Alternative für Deutschland, a fringe party with a stronghold in the former East that shook the nation in 2017 when it picked up 97 seats in the General election—or roughly 13 of the vote.
Though the task is as tricky as it is counterproductive, Brückner makes efforts to appear objective—his film is impressively non-preachy, even if you feel next to no one on the right will be watching...
Though the task is as tricky as it is counterproductive, Brückner makes efforts to appear objective—his film is impressively non-preachy, even if you feel next to no one on the right will be watching...
- 6/29/2022
- by Rory O'Connor
- The Film Stage
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