The Naked King – 18 Fragments on Revolution

1979 - revolution in Iran. 1980 - revolution in Poland. The fall of the Shah, the "King of Kings" in Iran, mass strikes and the "Solidarnosc" movement in Poland. What happened in the minds of the young men and women who were involved in the revolutions of that time? What happened to them when the revolution was suppressed or - as in Iran - when a religious authoritarian elite took power? The director Andreas Hoessli lived in Poland as a research fellow. There, he met the reporter Ryszard Kapuscinski, who reported on the revolution in Iran. Kapuscinski's notes are the starting point of the film’s narrative, in which the director also collects the Polish secret service’s files about himself, where he discovers that he is to be recruited as an informant under the name "Hassan" for the secret services of the Polish People's Republic. (Camerimage)