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Ex-war reporter Reichelt: "Where is the Bundeswehr?"
Photo: Christoph Michaelis / Amazon Prime
Black clouds of smoke rise over Berlin, the "Bild" boss is in his element.
He took out his binoculars, found the streets below him from his office on the 16th floor and excitedly asks his people whether "Bild" reporters are already there.
But there was no fire disaster, only two tar stoves burned on the construction site in front of the city palace.
Julian Reichelt looks disappointed and treads nervously through his office.
It seems a bit as if the man had been interned on the upper floors of the Springer house.
There is a narrow cot against the wall for sleeping, and he smokes a chain like a knack in his office.
The pandemic and lockdown are likely to have reinforced the feeling of jail.
The Amazon Prime Video documentary "BILD.Macht.Deutschland?", Which begins with scenes from March of this year, shows from a close-up perspective how the former war reporter tried to hold his empire together in the difficult year 2020 from his tower.
Sometimes he announces the current loss of circulation of his newspaper in a mood of alarm, sometimes he takes a general pose.
The production extends over seven parts, that makes almost 350 minutes of saber rattling, marching orders and perseverance.
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