"The Screeching Sound of Power as Soon as it Puts on the Brakes"

"Das Quietschen der Macht, wenn sie die Bremsen zieht" (original title)

Synopsis

Images from the Versailles summit in 1982 and from the summit at the Munich Residence in 1992: The leaders and their men. Also, images from the "hot August" of 1977 and the "stormy February" of 1973: In all these cases, state power pulls hard on the brakes so that they screech.