The Roots of Madness

For 40 years, Ulrich Tilgner travelled throughout the Middle East as a reporter for Germantelevision. In the role of melancholic witness, he revisits this region, devastated with the active support of Western powers, reconnecting with his contacts and friends of the time to assess the extent of a disaster that Edgar Hagen’s film re-implants in our memory saturated by the acceleration of geopolitical news.