Der Weiße mit dem Schwarzbrot

Summary

White Man with Black Bread

Christof Wackernagel, best known in Germany as an actor and former member of the Red Army Faction ("RAF") lives in Mali. In his compelling portrait, Jonas Grosch shows a man who simply cannot stand still if he senses injustice. The courage to stand up for one’s beliefs coupled with vanity? However one chooses to look at it, it is easy to imagine what made him connect with the "RAF". With his irrepressible will for freedom, Christof Wackernagel gets entangled in the horrors of day-to-day life in Africa.
"The only film about the RAF in which a human being really comes over for me. A human being who can’t even understand himself, doesn’t take himself too seriously and who has a lot of other Utopias up his sleeve. Someone who ′hands-on′ carves out his life like an open-access piece of work. It’s a film you just have to have seen if you want to understand exactly why there always were anarchists – and why there always will be." (Volker Schloendorff )

Source: German Films Service & Marketing GmbH