The Antifascists

Mar 9, 2017

1h 14m

★ 7.0

A war is being fought on the streets of Europe. The aim is on fascism.

Overview

A low-intensity war is being fought on the streets of Europe and the aim is on fascism. This critically acclaimed documentary takes us behind the masks of the militants called antifascists. In 2013 a group of armed nazis attacks a peaceful demonstration in Stockholm where several people are injured. In Greece the neo-nazi party Golden Dawn becomes the third largest in the election and in Malmö the activist Showan Shattak and his friends are attacked by a group of nazis with knives and he ends up in a coma. In this portrait of the antifascists in Greece and Sweden we get to meet key figures that explain their view on their radical politics but also to question the level their own violence and militancy.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Aeaeae Produktion

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Cast

Kajsa Ekis Ekman

Showan Shattak

Athena Farrokhzad

Joel Bjurströmer Almgren

Spyros Marketos

Lisa Bjurwald

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The Antifascists

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