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August 25, 1992 in Rostock, Lichtenhagen. About 3,000 neo-Nazis are setting fire to an asylum-seekers' home in which around 150 Vietnamese still live. Also a camera team from ZDF and a few city employees. The police withdraw their line of defence, the Nazis can act unhindered. Director Burhan Qurbani occupied himself with the subject for five years before laying this fictional story about the events of Rostock, Lichtenhagen. He approaches his subject with sovereignty and artistry and does not feed us with simple truths and supposed certainties. Yoshi Heimrath's camera initially shows the world in black and white, almost as before the apocalypse. A poetic nightmare. We see the dreariness of the prefabricated buildings, garbage, the grimaces of the Nazis. The moment the violence escalates, the film becomes colourful. In the center of attention are the psychologically striking Robbie (Joel Basman) and the sensitive Stefan (Jonas Nay). Then there is the pretty Jennie (Saskia Rosendahl), who stands between the two. Lien (Trang Le Hong) lives in the home, works and tries to organize a life in Germany. She'll regret it. The people of the GDR, the losers of history, were driven to lose nothing. The Vietnamese, on the other hand, dream of work and a better life. Devid Striesow plays Stefan's father, an agonizingly despondent local politician. Jonas Nay as Stefan is the key figure. He throws the first Molotov cocktail, torn between ecstasy and conscience. He doesn't believe in anything, which makes him vulnerable. Sometimes he seems like he wants to wipe himself out. I had to think of Gottfried Benn and his inner emigration during the Nazi period. "The crown of creation, the pig, man."