With “In the Land of Wolves,” Ralf Bücheler made a film about a domestic predator that everyone is currently upset about. The Munich documentary filmmaker introduced him personally at the Dok-Fest, and heated discussions awaited him not only there.
That starts off well: a sentence like that is rarely meant positively, and Ralf Bücheler is no exception. He made the comment when his new film’s Facebook page went live. “We had barely uploaded the first photo when hate comments started coming in,” remembers the documentary filmmaker. “In the Land of Wolves” hadn’t been released yet, so people didn’t even know about the film. They still had an opinion about it. When it comes to that, Ralf Bücheler is a burned child. But more on that later.