The Renegades - a long way home
“This is what your brother wanted: A martyr’s death.” Meral from Hamburg cannot believe it: Her little brother Ferhat, the baby of the family, is said to have died in the fight for the Islamic state. But she does not want to accept this.
The ex-terrorist Oliver has returned home. At the age of 16, he joined the IS terror organization and became the face of its propaganda machine. Today he is a 21-year-old war veteran, blind in one eye. The shrapnel from 19 grenades in his body remind him of the deeds of that time.
Oliver and Meral: he a perpetrator, she a victim of the radicalism of her own brother. Two wounded souls connected by a fateful photograph.
The Renegades - a long way home
Lisa Maria Hagen, Mariam Noori
- Documentary
- Production Country / Year
- Germany, Austria 2020
- Language
- de. OF mit en. UT
- Format
- Color, 76min
2.35:1, Dolby SR
- Original Title
- Die Heimkehr - Leben nach dem Terror
Director & Crew
Lisa Maria Hagen
Born in 1989 in Bavaria. Program trainee at NDR North German Broadcasting. Worked in Mexico for American and European broadcasters. Active as a video journalist for ARD in the fields of migration and Islamism.
Filmography
2020
- DIE HEIMKEHR – LEBEN NACH DEM TERROR (Co-Regie), Dokumentarfilm HOF 2020
Mariam Noori
Born in 1987 in Afghanistan. Program trainee at NDR North German Broadcasting. Active as an investigative reporter for the Panorama editorial program.
Filmography
2020
- DIE HEIMKEHR – LEBEN NACH DEM TERROR (Co-Regie), Dokumentarfilm HOF 2020
- Writer
- Lisa Maria Hagen
- Mariam Noori
- Director of Photography
- Lisa Maria Hagen
- Mariam Noori
- Editor
- Dietmar Schiffermüller
- Sound Designer
- Jan-Niklas Würpel
- Music Composer
- Ben Lukas Boysen
- Producer
- Dietmar Schiffermüller