On the set of »Manta Manta - Zwoter Teil«, Til Schweiger is said to have drunkenly attacked an employee and punched him in the face. In addition, a young extra is said to have been filmed topless on set after a spontaneous idea of the director. Maike Backhaus and Alexandra Rojkov have uncovered these and other grievances for SPIEGEL. One of the reasons why it has been so difficult to address such incidents so far is that the industry's complaints offices do not proceed anonymously. Now many hope that this could improve after the revelations, and politicians promise to improve with more binding rules and possibly link them to a reform of film funding.
In an interview with »Stimmenfang«, the two authors explain how this research started and why it almost didn't appear.
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