The False Promise of Advancement

The False Promise of Advancement

2025
1h 30m
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Overview

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.

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Status: Released

Language: DE

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Production Information

Production Companies
Hoferichter & Jacobs MDR
Production Countries
Germany
Spoken Languages
German

Quick Facts

Original Title Das falsche Versprechen vom Aufstieg
Release Date January 22, 2025
Status Released
Language DE
IMDb ID tt35673141

Cast

Marlen Hobrack
Marlen Hobrack

Self - Interviewee

Scott Wempe
Scott Wempe

Self - Interviewee

Natalya Nepomnyashcha
Natalya Nepomnyashcha

Self - Interviewee

Jörg Theobald
Jörg Theobald

Self - Interviewee

Stephanie zu Guttenberg
Stephanie zu Guttenberg

Self - Interviewee

Cawa Younosi
Cawa Younosi

Self - Interviewee

Martyna Linartas
Martyna Linartas

Self - Interviewee

Marcel Helbig
Marcel Helbig

Self - Interviewee

Michael Hartmann
Michael Hartmann

Self - Interviewee

Ciani-Sophia Höder
Ciani-Sophia Höder

Self - Interviewee

Eva Voss
Eva Voss

Self - Interviewee

Joe Kaeser
Joe Kaeser

Self (archive footage)

Key Crew

Dirk Schneider
Director
Dirk Schneider
Writer
Ariane Riecker
Writer
Ariane Riecker
Director
Michael Schönherr
Producer

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