Je suis Karl

Je suis Karl (2021) is a German-Czech political thriller you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Christian Schwochow. A parcel bomb tears through a Berlin apartment, killing Maxi's mother and little brothers; only she and her father walk away.

Numb with grief, Maxi (Luna Wedler) crosses paths with the magnetic Karl (Jannis Niewöhner), who invites her to a youth conference in Prague. Bright faces, slick talk of a "better Europe," the sense that someone finally gets her. What she can't see is that the movement courting her is run by the very people who planted the bomb. Extremism here doesn't arrive in jackboots — it shows up as charming peers with a marketing budget.

Schwochow builds a genuinely uneasy film about how Europe's far-right populism recruits the young through mourning and a hunger to belong. It unsettles exactly as much as it means to. Stream Je suis Karl (2021) online on iFILM.