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"""Germans are obsessed with the idea of identity."" Volker Schlöndorff, Director. This is an up-to-date, captivating and uncompromising portrait of a great country and its people. At the top of the European class, polite, hard-working and rarely caught at fault, Germany, 20 years after reunification, has enjoyed its hitherto well-controlled growth at leisure: culture, abundance, a perfected social system. But something in the German identity has recently become strained. The crisis, its geopolitical positions and European failures have shaken it. Although Germany is the world's fourth-largest power, it is sometimes unhappy about the failures of its social cohesion, its difficulties in integrating new immigration flows, and its role as a docile European giant. For the population, which no longer intends to flagellate itself because of a past that's too onerous, it's time to break with the past and assert itself. But who exactly are these Germans?"

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Jean-Louis de la Vaissière has been a journalist with AFP since 1976. A permanent correspondent in Germany from 1985 to 1990, he later became chief editor at AFP's Berlin office for five years. He was a privileged witness to developments in Germany, in the 1980s in Bonn, under the Kohl era, after the fall of the Wall in 1989/90, then in the reunified capital between 2003 and 2008. Volker Schlöndorff, Director of The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum, won the Palme d'Or at Cannes for his adaptation of Günter Grass's novel The Drum.

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