»"The Naked King" is a veto against the official revolutionary stories. Director Andreas Hoessli takes a different approach: he conceives his film as a search for clues that avoids conclusive answers and provokes questions. This is precisely one of his great strengths.«
»Andreas Hoessli assembles his own picture, a collage of history, without claiming to be complete. Contemporary witnesses speak at length, they are given plenty of space. The director leads through the almost two-hour film as first-person narrator – the late Bruno Ganz lent him his voice from offstage. One listens to him long and gladly.«
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»A timely work at a time when mass demonstrations are sweeping the globe.«