Somewhere in Berlin. A package in the hallway. Alex, husband and father of three, forgets the wine in the car. A bomb jolts him out of his routine. He loses his footing. Maxi, a self-confident young woman, wants to break away from her parents and stand on her own two feet. She had imagined her detachment very differently. She gets angry and asks questions. And is afraid for the first time in her life. Karl catches Maxi and offers answers. Resolute, clever and seductive, he pursues his own plan. As part of a movement. Today in Berlin. Tomorrow in Prague. Soon in Strasbourg - all over Europe.

JE SUIS KARL tells of seduction after a loss, of personal pain and the danger of recognizing the distortions in the thoughts and actions of radical people too late, if only because one loves. Not in the distant future, but now. An uncompromising movie at the height of our times. The film is as harrowing as a family drama as it is gripping as a social study. Director Christian Schwochow and screenwriter Thomas Wendrich combine the fiction of a frightening scenario with the spirit of a reality to which we are all too happy to close our eyes and ears.

Followed by a film talk with director Christian Schwochow