The False Promise of Advancement (2025)
Synopsis
Origin sticks like shit to your shoe! That's what Marlen Hobrack says, who grew up as a working-class child in Bautzen. But the promise of the old Federal Republic was that you can become anything if you just try hard enough. But that no longer applies. So is class in Germany fixed from birth? Have we long been living in a country in which origin and family background are more important for future prospects than individual performance and commitment? In Germany, it takes six generations to rise from poverty to the middle class, in Denmark only two generations. Those affected reflect on their life stories, the burden of their social origins, the wrong and right turning points for social advancement, as classified by social researchers. They talk of pride and shame, of financial hardship and wealth, of origin and future, of growing up and moving up in this Germany with its entrenched selection mechanisms for social advancement.
Release Date: 2025-01-22
Runtime: 90 minutes
Director: Dirk Schneider
Top Cast
- Marlen Hobrack as Self - Interviewee
- Scott Wempe as Self - Interviewee
- Natalya Nepomnyashcha as Self - Interviewee
- Jörg Theobald as Self - Interviewee
- Stephanie zu Guttenberg as Self - Interviewee
- Cawa Younosi as Self - Interviewee
- Martyna Linartas as Self - Interviewee
- Marcel Helbig as Self - Interviewee
- Michael Hartmann as Self - Interviewee
- Ciani-Sophia Höder as Self - Interviewee
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