The Roots of Madness (2026)

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The Roots of Madness follows filmmaker Edgar Hagen and veteran reporter Ulrich Tilgner on a journey through Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and Niger to uncover how Western wars have fueled today’s refugee crises and rising extremism. By confronting the roots of displacement, the film challenges viewers to face the West’s own role in the chaos dividing its democracies.

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00:03in the West refugees have become an irritant but are they really the reason

00:11for the crisis in Western democracies as many believe I had to find the root

00:18causes that divide Western society today

00:24it's when I met Ulrich Tilgner the legendary German television reporter

00:28we will focus our attention on those places from which the West is systematically disengaging

00:53we have no place to go where to go we have no idea

01:11America had opened Pandora's box

01:15we can do it as if we don't have to do it

01:20we came we saw he died

01:28Europe America

01:32now look the world away

01:34the consequences will no one will carry

01:42they told me what you see us are we liberators or are we occupiers

01:53okay

01:54we have to come back to the future

01:56the future

01:56our

01:57our

01:57V&E.

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