Merkel: Anatomy of a Crisis

Plot Summary

Angela Merkel's decision in autumn 2015 to open the borders for refugees split the country - some praised the moral stance, others criticized the surrender of sovereignty. Yet what would appear to be well-planned activity is in reality a policy of muddling along, chance, trial and error. The Driven Ones is a chronicle of the refugee crisis which shows that the political actors are being driven along, crushed between self-imposed constraints and events that have spun out of control.

Top Cast

Imogen Kogge Angela Merkel

Josef Bierbichler Horst Seehofer

Wolfgang Pregler Thomas de Maizière

Tristan Seith Peter Altmaier

Rüdiger Vogler Wolfgang Schäuble