Baracke

Bea and Ramin fall in love, become a couple and break up again. Both belong to a clique of young people from Krölpa in Thuringia, born around 1977. Later, Bea connects with another man from the former youth clique: Uwe is part of the movement that goes into opposition to the parents' generation and radicalises itself. Bea has a child with Uwe, and a family is born with him.

The threads of the relationship reach all the way to West Germany, where the three celebrate their wedding in the circle of the Munich extended family. Later, the family leaves the poor conditions in Krölpa and moves to the Weißer Hirsch villa district in Dresden. But the past becomes the present and the family fails. For the father, the only thing left to do is to draw the final consequence.

As an astute chronicler, Rainald Goetz's virtuoso machinery of thought and linking leads us into a museum of the 21st century. He draws analogies to the right-wing terrorist NSU - recent past and present are condensed into a radical Jetztexzess. With a sensitive feeling for language, knowledge of human nature and subtle powers of observation, Goetz makes the social consciousness speak and draws pictures of an ambivalent present in stream-like cascades of thought.

Director: Claudia Bossard

#family #German history #spiral of violence