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The False Promise of Advancement

20251h 30mMovieDocumentaryTV Movie

Origin sticks like shit to your shoe! That's what Marlen Hobrack says, who grew up as a working-class child in Bautzen. But the promise of the old Federal Republic was that you can become anything if you just try hard enough. But that no…

DirectorsDirk Schneider·Ariane Riecker
WritersDirk Schneider·Ariane Riecker
ProducerMichael Schönherr

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Cast · Directed by Dirk Schneider

MH
Marlen Hobrack
Self - Interviewee
SW
Scott Wempe
Self - Interviewee
NN
Natalya Nepomnyashcha
Self - Interviewee
JT
Jörg Theobald
Self - Interviewee
SG
Stephanie zu Guttenberg
Self - Interviewee
CY
Cawa Younosi
Self - Interviewee
ML
Martyna Linartas
Self - Interviewee
MH
Marcel Helbig
Self - Interviewee
MH
Michael Hartmann
Self - Interviewee
CH
Ciani-Sophia Höder
Self - Interviewee
EV
Eva Voss
Self - Interviewee
JK
Joe Kaeser
Self (archive footage)

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