of Madness
The Roots of Madness (It’s America)
… the United States of America, largely supported by its allies in NATO (although not with complete alignment this time, I guess), keeps on making the same mistakes while expecting the same results, which is, as the maxim goes, the very definition of insanity.
Ulrich Tilgner… a mainstay of political consciousness for decades, reporting on conflicts across the Middle East for ZDF, Deutsche Welle and ARD… is followed by the inquisitive Swiss director Edgar Hagen for «The Roots of Madness» (2026), a compelling tour of destroyed West Asian societies through the eyes of the man who has seen it all before… We […] see, almost Adam Curtis-like, how all these struggles are deeply interwoven. […] Hagen’s excellent film lays this out with moving aplomb.
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