Germany / Mar 24, 2025 / 12 / ARD-Mediathek

Masterplan – Das Potsdamer Treffen und seine Folgen (2025)
Overall average
5.0/10
Plot
In November 2023, right-wing thought leaders, politicians from the AfD, CDU and Werteunion, as well as numerous entrepreneurs, met behind closed doors at the Landhaus Adlon in Potsdam. The topics discussed at the meeting were never intended to be made public. But weeks later, the media company Correctiv published the explosive contents of this conference, as investigative journalists were also present undercover. The revelations caused a stir and triggered the largest protest rallies against right-wing radicalism in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany, with more than three million people nationwide. Suddenly, Germans were discussing a word that hardly anyone had known until then: "remigration." Award-winning documentary filmmaker Volker Heise tells the story in a fact-rich, gripping, and unpretentious way, like a political thriller, bringing together the voices of those who were part of the meeting and those who exposed it to create an illuminating overall picture.
Main cast
Full cast
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| Dirk Gaw | Self - Interviewee |
| Heidi Benneckenstein | Self - Interviewee |
| Jens-Christian Wagner | Self - Interviewee |
| Markus Buschkühl | Self - Interviewee |
| Mary Finn | Self - Interviewee |
| Andrea Röpke | Self - Interviewee |
| Stefan Niggemeier | Self - Interviewee |
| Gabriela Keller | Self - Interviewee |
| Gernot Mörig | Self (archive footage) |
| Björn Höcke | Self (archive footage) |
| Alice Weidel | Self (archive footage) |
| Tino Chrupalla | Self (archive footage) |
| Mario Müller | Self (archive footage) |
| Mathilda Huss | Self (archive footage) |
| Silke Schröder | Self (archive footage) |
| Erik Ahrens | Self (archive footage) |
| Ulrich Siegmund | Self (archive footage) |
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| Friedrich Merz | Self (archive footage) |
| Wolfgang Schäuble | Self (archive footage) |
| Olaf Scholz | Self (archive footage) |
| Annalena Baerbock | Self (archive footage) |
| Bodo Ramelow | Self (archive footage) |
| Nancy Faeser | Self (archive footage) |
| Gerrit Huy | Self (archive footage) |
| Sebastian Räbiger | Self (archive footage) |
| Thorsten Schröder | Self (archive footage) |
Genres
Technical details
| Detail | Value |
|---|---|
| Original title | Masterplan – Das Potsdamer Treffen und seine Folgen |
| Original language | Deutsch (DE) |
| Spoken languages | Deutsch, English |
| Production countries | Germany |
| Status | Released |
| Production companies | Zero One Film, NDR, SWR, BR, RBB, MDR |
| Release date | 24 marzo 2025 |
| Production | Thomas Kufus, Bianca Krippendorf, Tassilo Aschauer |
| Writer | Volker Heise |
| Editing | Andrew Bird, Sven Heußner, Stefan Engelkamp, Danis Karaisaridis |
| Cinematography | Piotr Rosołowski, Markus Zucker, Volker Heise |
| Assistant directors | Volker Heise |
| Camera operators | Piotr Rosołowski, Markus Zucker, Volker Heise |
| Additional photography | Piotr Rosołowski, Markus Zucker, Volker Heise |
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| Production design | Darren Culley |
| Art direction | Darren Culley |
| Set decoration | Darren Culley |
| Music | Johannes Repka, Dominik Avenwedde, Oliver Göbel |
| Sound | Johannes Repka, Dominik Avenwedde, Oliver Göbel |
Release dates
Digital
TV
Germany / Mar 24, 2025 / 12 / Das Erste
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