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The False Promise of Advancement (2025)

ALL 01/22/2025 (de) Documentary, TV Movie 90 Min
  • Release
    01/22/2025
  • Production
    Hoferichter & Jacobs, MDR
  • Rotten tomato
    0%
  • Original title
    Das falsche Versprechen vom Aufstieg
  • Original language
    de
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

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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  1. Marlen Hobrack

    Self - Interviewee

  2. Scott Wempe

    Self - Interviewee

  3. Natalya Nepomnyashcha

    Self - Interviewee

  4. Jörg Theobald

    Self - Interviewee

  5. Stephanie zu Guttenberg

    Self - Interviewee

  6. Cawa Younosi

    Self - Interviewee

  7. Martyna Linartas

    Self - Interviewee

  8. Marcel Helbig

    Self - Interviewee

  9. Michael Hartmann

    Self - Interviewee

  10. Ciani-Sophia Höder

    Self - Interviewee

  11. Eva Voss

    Self - Interviewee

  12. Joe Kaeser

    Self (archive footage)

  13. Frank-Walter Steinmeier

    Self (archive footage)

  14. Sky du Mont

    Self (archive footage)

  15. Harry S. Truman

    Self (archive footage)

  16. Winston Churchill

    Self (archive footage)

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 16 , Crews : 25

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The False Promise of Advancement (2025) 90 Min

ALL 01/22/2025 (de)
Documentary, TV Movie
  • Release 01/22/2025
  • Production
    Hoferichter & Jacobs, MDR
  • Original title Das falsche Versprechen vom Aufstieg
  • de
  • Revenue0.00

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.

  1. Dirk Schneider, Ariane Riecker

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Ferenc Stobäus, Anika Wiegert

    Editor

  4. Michael Schönherr

    Producer



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