Merkel: Anatomy of a Crisis

Directed by Stephan Wagner

With Imogen Kogge, Josef Bierbichler, Wolfgang Pregler, Tristan Seith and Rüdiger Vogler

Angela Merkel's decision in autumn 2015 to open the borders for refugees split the country - some praised the moral stance, others criticized the surrender of sovereignty. Yet what would appear to be well-planned activity is in reality a policy of muddling along, chance, trial and error. The Driven Ones is a chronicle of the refugee crisis which shows that the political actors are being driven along, crushed between self-imposed constraints and events that have spun out of control.