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thehatedestroyer.com
Production: Fotogramma25 / Sineast Filmproduction
Working Title: The Hate Destroyer
Country: Italy/Germany
Project stage: development
Authors: Vincenzo Caruso, Fabrizio Mario Lussu
Lenght: 52’ / 26’
Synopsis: Irmela Mensah-Schramm, 65 years old, an heroine with no muscles nor super powers, armed with a paint spray, and a scraper, daily hunting throughout Germany looking for racist or homophobic graffiti or stickers.
Indifference is her worst enemy, and to those, who minimize, she answers: "People who draw a one meter swastika on a wall have to realize what they are doing."
  • Alexander Mohr 1 year ago
    sollen wir ihr eine fatcap schenken ?
  • Bof. 1 year ago
    ne fatcap-flatrate
  • Fotogramma25 plus 11 months ago
    Ok it's quite clear you are the experts about and we are not!
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  • Trend Graffiti 1 year ago
    ich würde paar Molotow CoversAll stiften :D
  • Fotogramma25 plus 11 months ago
    It's the first thing we thought when we met her!
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  • Jeroen Erosie 1 year ago
    brilliant way of active retirement

    and looks like a really nice portrait!

    love it
  • Fotogramma25 plus 11 months ago
    Thank you so much, Jeroen Erosie.
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  • Fotogramma25 plus 1 year ago
    Thank you all!
    A site dedicated to this project will be online soon.
    Stay tuned!
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  • SeaSaltFreak 1 year ago
    What a great person.

    Kudos to this lady!

    Any museum she chooses should host her art.

    :-)
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  • ungeheuerlich 1 year ago
    There is a little translation mistake..
    At 1:07 she doesn't say "Held" but "Hehl" !!!

    "Held" = Hero
    "Hehl" = Secret
    "Da mache ich keinen Hehl draus" = I don't make a secret out of that"
  • Fotogramma25 plus 11 months ago
    and so... we checked and removed the mistake.
    Thank you so much!
  • ungeheuerlich 11 months ago
    I'm glad I could help. This woman is fantastic!
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  • Fotogramma25 plus 1 year ago
    Hello Ungeheuerlich.
    Thanks for having pointed out our mistake.

    We will modify it as soon as possible.

    We really appreciate your comment and all further comments that could help our work!


    Dear SeaSaltFreak, we agree and we'll try to host her exhibition here in Italy!
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  • Julian Quitsch 1 year ago
    Coole Sache, nur lasst alles Englische nochma durchchecken...

    Bin gespannt!
  • Fotogramma25 plus 11 months ago
    We are checking them all right now!
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  • artstuffmatters 1 year ago
    I love this woman's project and I think doing a documentary on it is great. Thank you!
  • Fotogramma25 plus 11 months ago
    Thank you too Artstuffmatters, we are so happy to read that Irmela is such a good "model" for the bigger part of web people!
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  • Urbanartcore.eu 1 year ago
    yeah, interesting! just wrote about your documentary:
    urbanartcore.eu/buffing-nazi-graffiti/
  • Fotogramma25 plus 11 months ago
    Hello Urbanartcore!
    We are grateful!
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  • Tim Scouten 11 months ago
    someone send this poor woman some fat caps or some orange dots.
  • Fotogramma25 plus 11 months ago
    You the first?
    ;)

    Hi, Tim!
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  • Suuuuuuuu plus 11 months ago
    why does this not have over 1 billion views. really cool.
  • Fotogramma25 plus 11 months ago
    we're working to reach that number.

    thank you.
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  • Daniel 11 months ago
    What a Super Woman! Loved it!
    This lady should be the role model for every one. Take action, change what its wrong.
    Hope the best for this documentary.
  • Fotogramma25 plus 11 months ago
    Daniel, this Lady is really powerful. You should see her walking in Berlin looking for graffiti and stickers to erase; Tireless!

    Thanks for your wishes and all the best to you.
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  • HS 11 months ago
    Thanks for sharing this story!
  • Fotogramma25 plus 11 months ago
    And this is only the demo-versione of the longer documentary!

    ;)
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  • Kris Efe 11 months ago
    She's my hero! I love so much what she's doing! Is amazing!
  • Fotogramma25 plus 11 months ago
    true!
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  • Soundfiti 10 months ago
    I wish I had a granny like this.... looking forward to the longer documentary!
  • Fotogramma25 plus 10 months ago
    It will come.
    And for the record, Irmela is such an untiring woman!
    Thank you, Soundfiti.
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  • Cyber Wanderlust 10 months ago
    I love the idea for the movie, this great lady, and this kind of activism, but I don't like this language used in the title of the movie. It reminds me on violence, and contributes to the general idea of any graffiti work being act of vandalism. To destroy is a violent act. Somehow this "DESTROYER" (I presume you translated the title from German, or not?) doesn't suits this great woman that do this kind of work. I would like it much better if you change the title to something more appropriate! :D Like: "The hate recall" or "The hate retirement" or "The hate abolisher"!

    She's a true hero and great positive activist! :D
  • Fotogramma25 plus 10 months ago
    Hi, Ej Dragana Dragana.
    We spoke, last week, about your doubts. This had to be a provisional title, which were suggested by Irmela in german. We translated it in english and thought it would have been for a short time; then we posted this demo video, and the demo reached so many people that we decided not to change it.
    Right now, we are affectionate to him and we really like it, because it results quite clear that she's covering and removing not all graffiti works, but THOSE graffiti that hymn violence in any form.
    So, we don't think "destroy" is only a negative term; "to destroy" something bad means that you're trying to remove it forever.
    In any case, we have already written that we appreciate viewers comments and we are glad to read kind feedbacks to direct our documentary in the best way.
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  • Michael Risch 8 months ago
    we like what you do!
    your now on agozar:
    agozar.tumblr.com/
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  • LunaDarkness 7 months ago
    Bravo!
  • Fotogramma25 plus 2 months ago
    thanks luna
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  • jonas herbst 6 months ago
    danke
  • Fotogramma25 plus 2 months ago
    You're wellcome jonas
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  • MSR! 5 months ago
    1:36 XD
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  • Klasse Recordings 4 months ago
    fantastic...full support!
  • Fotogramma25 plus 2 months ago
    Thank you klasse. We appreciate.
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  • Fotogramma25 plus 2 months ago
    Thanks to everybody for your support.
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  • teeds 1 month ago
    Really great work.
    She should get financial support by some companies or just sponsored her cleaning material.
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  • Leonardo Gomes 3 weeks ago
    Great Work! Cheers from Brazil!
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