"The Party"

To celebrate her appointment as Health Minister in the shadow cabinet, ambitious politician Janet invites close friends and fellow campaigners to her London townhouse. When her husband Bill blurts out an explosive confession, the party takes a surprising turn.
Suddenly, the other guests also reveal long-kept secrets, calling relationships, friendships, political convictions and life plans into question. Within a very short space of time, the cultivated atmosphere tips over into an emotional chaos of mutual accusations. While the appetisers burn in the oven, the shreds fly like whiskey glasses in the living room and the party heads inexorably towards the big bang.

Discussion guest: Julia Reuschenbach is a political scientist at the Free University of Berlin who researches political parties, elections and political communication. At the start of the Bundestag election campaign, we talk about fair cooperation in a political and social context and what constitutes a good culture of debate and argument.

Film & Talk #2030 is a series of events organised by the SBNE of the district of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf in cooperation with Delphi LUX and the Berlin State Centre for Political Education.