DEPORTATION LOG

(44 min., NDR broadcasting network, 2016)

DEPORTATION LOG

(44 min., NDR broadcasting network, 2016)

They come at night, rudely awaken families in their beds and deposit them in an airplane. In 2015, so-called special enforcement squads from the police and immigration authorities deported more than 22,000 applicants for asylum. The startling documentary DEPORTATION LOG (original title: PROTOKOLL EINER ABSCHIEBUNG) illustrates a comprehensive picture of these coercive government measures for the first time in Germany.

Screenplay/Director: Hauke Wendler
Camera: Boris Mahlau
Editor: Sigrid Sveistrup
Commissioning Editor: Barbara Denz (NDR)
Production: PIER 53 Filmproduktion

VOICES OF THE PRESS

“This documentary shows the nightmare of anyone who has ever applied for asylum.” (Hamburger Morgenpost)

“For the first time, this documentary portrays what is otherwise apparently better kept hidden from the public.” (Julia Huber, Greenpeace Magazin)

“This film is a plea against indifference.” (Volker Behrens, Hamburger Abendblatt)