Smog

In the Ruhr area, an inversion weather situation is slowly turning into a gas chamber. The elderly and children are the first to run out of air, the first people die. Here, too, the television cameras are on site, in live broadcasts and focal point broadcasts, the topic is discussed with experts, but without much sympathy or benefit for the viewers. In 'Smog', the news broadcasts become pure components of the narrative. However, the film as a whole questions the emergency plan of the authorities much harder than a journalistic contribution could probably do. Some politicians and industrialists were of the opinion that Menge had used the film to scaremongering. That changed six years later, when the smog alarm was triggered for the first time in Germany in the Ruhr area.