It was precisely at the beginning of the 1930s that Majub bin Adam Mohamed Hussein came to Germany. In the colony of German East Africa, he was a child soldier for Germany during World War I – but he never received any pay. So he signs on with a German ship and demands his money in Berlin. He does not receive it, fails to comply with the call to leave, and instead becomes a much-employed extra in the Nazi propaganda cinema under the name Mohamed Husen. The documentary film by Eva Knopf places the supporting actor at the center and attempts to reconstruct his biography. At the same time, it raises the question of how to deal with the intolerable films from the Nazi era: Only those who show them can also tell the story of the extra Mohamed Husen.

"Majub's Journey" will be screened in the short film program "Decolonize the Archive" on April 4, 5:30 PM, at sweetSixteen