On the evening of February 19, 2020, 43-year-old Tobias Rathjen shot nine people with a history of migration in Hanau within twelve minutes and then shot his mother and himself in his apartment in Kesselstadt. In his documentary "The German People", Marcin Wierzchowski looks at the events from the perspective of the victims' friends and surviving relatives. The director accompanied them for four years with and without a camera. The film shows how differently those affected deal with their grief. The one-sided and unreserved focus on the victims' point of view is a very deliberate choice; it is a cinematographic extension of the hashtag "SayTheirNames", which has gone around the world. Wierzchowski also makes it his mission to expose structural racism - the special task force that stormed the perpetrator's house that night was later disbanded because half of the officers were active in right-wing extremist chat groups. A sensitive documentary about grief and trauma and the fight for justice.

Germany 2025, Director: Marcin Wierzchowski, Actors: Cetin Gültekin, Sedat Gübru, Piter Minnemann, 6+, 132 min