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film profile], who connected from his Berlin home. His film, a German-Czech offering in Berlinale s Berlinale Special strand, is a study of infatuation: with a person and with an ideology, which, as in most cases, is not what it initially seemed. The title alludes to the
Je suis Charlie slogan that was coined after the massacre at the
Charlie Hebdo office in 2015. The protagonist, Maxi (
Luna Wedler), who by chance survived the bombing of her home, falls for the charismatic Karl (
Jannis Niewöhne), who conceals his connection to the far right.
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