MERKEL

By Eva WEBER

CINETIC MEDIA - as SALES All rights

Documentary - Completed 2022


Festivals
& Awards

Telluride FF 2022
    • Year of production
    • 2022
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • GERMANY
    • Director(s)
    • Eva WEBER
    • Producer(s)
    • Sigrid DYKJAER, Lizzie GILLETT, Sonia HENRICI
    • Synopsis
    • A pastor’s daughter who grew up behind the iron curtain in the former DDR (East Germany), Merkel
      re-invented herself after the fall of the Berlin Wall to become TIME Person of the Year in 2015, often
      outsmarting and outstaying her male opponents. But despite her historic 16-year Chancellorship of
      Germany, very little is known about her. Using vast archive materials and interviews with those who
      know her – friends, journalists, political allies, and critics – the film offers a thoughtful reexamination of her life and career from both a domestic and international perspective, told with
      humor, subtlety, and poignancy befitting of its subject.