The TikTok-Army of the AfD (2025)
The AfD is clearly the strongest force on TikTok. Its official account has far more followers than those of the other major German parties combined. 14 to 19-year-olds are the main users of the social media platform TikTok, followed by those aged 20 and over. That is why the AfD is particularly popular with young voters there. How does the political party manage this? And what does this mean for the upcoming early federal election in February 2025? For the documentary, the team of authors researched undercover, created numerous fake accounts and delved deep into the bubble of AfD supporters. A dark world in which even official AfD party representatives flood TikTok with massive amounts of content and in which their right-wing extremist and anti-constitutional messages reach millions of young people. The AfD has understood how to use the time that young people statistically spend on TikTok per day for their indoctrination. And that could have fatal consequences.
Directors: Christoph Kürbel, Dominik Wolf, Helmi Krappitz.
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Simon T. Roden as Self - Narrator (voice) |
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Ruben Rupp as Self - Interviewee |
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Kimberly Nicolaus as Self - Interviewee |
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Till Eckert as Self - Interviewee |
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Patrick Kolek as Self - Interviewee |
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Roman Dobrokhotov as Self - Interviewee |
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Felix W. Zimmermann as Self - Interviewee |
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Alice Weidel as Self (archive footage) |
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Tino Chrupalla as Self (archive footage) |
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Maximilian Krah as Self (archive footage) |
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Björn Höcke as Self (archive footage) |
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Alexander Gauland as Self (archive footage) |
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Beatrix von Storch as Self (archive footage) |
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Elon Musk as Self (archive footage) |
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Donald Trump as Self (archive footage) |
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Joe Biden as Self (archive footage) |
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Kamala Harris as Self (archive footage) |
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JD Vance as Self (archive footage) |
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Melania Trump as Self (archive footage) |
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Erik Ahrens as Self (archive footage) |
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Tino Pfaff as Self (archive footage) |
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Anna Rupp as Self (archive footage) |
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Ulrich Siegmund as Self (archive footage) |
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Hannes Gnauck as Self (archive footage) |
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Dirk Brandes as Self (archive footage) |
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Kay Gottschalk as Self (archive footage) |
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Matthias Helferich as Self (archive footage) |
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Dennis Hohloch as Self (archive footage) |
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Alexander Jungbluth as Self (archive footage) |
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Martin Reichardt as Self (archive footage) |
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Roman Reusch as Self (archive footage) |
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Heiko Scholz as Self (archive footage) |
| Directing | Christoph Kürbel | Director |
| Writing | Christoph Kürbel | Writer |
| Directing | Dominik Wolf | Director |
| Writing | Dominik Wolf | Writer |
| Directing | Helmi Krappitz | Director |
| Writing | Helmi Krappitz | Writer |
| Production | Florian Karpf | Producer |
| Production | Anton Oettinger | Producer |
| Crew | Martin Suckow | Commissioning Editor |
| Camera | Jupp Tautfest | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Mika Völker | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Bojan Novic | Editor |
| Sound | Carsten Kramer | Sound |
| Sound | Christian Napiorkowski | Sound |
| Sound | Kai Fürst | Sound |
| Art | Damaris Becker | Graphic Designer |
| Art | Ozan Şanal | Graphic Designer |
| Art | Marc Trompetter | Graphic Designer |
