Mar 20, 2024
International Weeks against RacismFilm screening "We are young. We are strong." with lecture
24 August 1992, Rostock-Lichtenhagen. A group of bored young people without jobs or prospects join neo-Nazis who have been rioting against police officers and foreigners in front of a refugee home for asylum seekers for days. Young Lien, who wants to stay in Germany, lives in the neighbouring "Sonnenblumenhaus", a house for Vietnamese contract workers. Lien's brother and his pregnant wife, on the other hand, want to return home because they no longer feel safe. Meanwhile, local politician Martin Boll tries to stay out of the political conflicts surrounding the eviction of the asylum seekers' reception centre. But then he has to watch as the riots slowly spread to the "Sunflower House". He recognises his son among the attackers...
With the kind support of UFA Fiction GmbH. An event organised by the SLUB in cooperation with the TU Dresden.