A documentary film about the racist attack in Hanau in 2020 - and about the struggle of the survivors and bereaved - is being shown in a cooperation between Cinema Quadrat and Abendakademie Mannheim:

THE GERMAN PEOPLE

DEU 2025. D: Marcin Wierzchowski. Documentary. 138 min. FSK: 6

On the night of February 19, 2020, a racist shoots nine young people in Hanau. Survivors and grieving families are left behind, fighting not only for those murdered, but also for truth and justice. For four years, director Marcin Wierzchowski accompanied their tireless resistance against being forgotten and documented their demands for the many failures of the authorities to be dealt with and their determination not to be treated as second-class citizens. The survivors reveal the structural racism that is evident not only in the act itself, but also in the way the authorities treat them. DAS DEUTSCHE VOLK poses the currently pressing question again: Who belongs to Germany and who does not?
"Deeply humanistic, radically subjective and yet universal [...] With his sensitive, closely observed long-term documentary, Marcin Wierzchowski gives a voice above all to the relatives of the victims."(critic.de)

In cooperation with Abendakademie Mannheim
With introduction