Die Demokratie ist los!
CH 2015 84'
Director: Thomas Isler
Script: Thomas Isler
Camera: Frank Barbian, Thomas Isler, Carlotta Holy-Steinemann
Sound: Reto Stamm, Patrick Becker, Johannes Heilig, Simon Manetsch, Cyril Harrison, Florian Eidenbenz
Editing:: Kathrin Plüss, Maria Brendle, Mirjam Zimmermann
Music:: Bernd Schurer
Production:: maximage GmbH, Brigitte Hofer, Cornelia Seitler
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On the right fringes of the political landscape, ever-louder anti-European, anti-Islamic and nationalist voices can be heard. These are mingled with the praises of a country that has supposedly done everything right: Switzerland, and its direct democracy. Yet in Switzerland, this direct democracy has reached its boundaries. Called for by the Swiss electorate, such constitutional amendments as the anti-minaret initiative contravene the basic principles of internationally recognized human rights conventions. The film explores the call for direct democracy regarding the limitations of such a political system.