Wildes Herz (2017)

mini|left|Jan “Monchi” Gorkow at the “Das Fest” concert in Karlsruhe in 2017. The band Feine Sahne Fischfilet publicly campaigns against racism, sexism, and homophobia. The film portrays the tensions between politics and right- and left-wing violence, tracing Jan Gorkow’s youth in Jarmen, his involvement in the ultra scene of F.C. Hansa Rostock, the beginnings of his politicization, and the conflicts with the police and his parents—a dentist and a civil engineer—that came with it. After the band’s first album (2009) and the performances that followed, its members realized that Nazis also felt at home at their concerts, and adopted an openly anti-right-wing-extremist stance. The film follows Feine Sahne Fischfilet and its members over three years. Because of accusations that it held an anti-state attitude, the band was monitored by the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Office for the Protection of the Constitution and was repeatedly mentioned in the state’s annual report.