Democracy

Synopsis

Democracy offers an insight into a hidden world of political struggle for new data protection legislation in the European Union. Euro-MP Jan Philipp Albrecht and EU-Commissioner Viviane Reding attempt the supposedly impossible. They take on a hard-edged apparatus of political power, in which intrigue, success and failure are frequent bedfellows. After two and a half years following the legislative process, the documentary brings complex power structures to life and offers a snapshot of democracy today.

Director Biography

Raised in Switzerland, David Bernet lives in Germany, where he writes, directs and produces documentaries. After studying comparative literature and literary theory and philosophy in Vienna and Berlin, he started working as a press and radio journalist in 1995, then as a researcher and writer of documentaries, and finally as director of his own projects.