In his Oscar-nominated documentary championship “The Act of Killing”, Joshua Oppenheimer (“The End”) interviewed a jovial older gentleman named Congo, who reports on walks through Jakarta for a matter of course and in a good mood, as he killed people at the Indonesian massacre in 1965/66. As an audience, one wonders of course: Why did the protagonist of this documentary even agree to the hell – it must have been clear to him that he doesn't get away well in it? But the answer is terrifyingly simple: Congo believes to be on the right side – something like a awareness of injustice simply does not come to mind 45 years after the cruel deeds.
Similarly-only at a completely different level-that must have been with David Ekwe-Books. Johannes Büttner, besides Julian Vogel, one of the directors of “Soldiers of Light”, once attended primary school with him. And now that the former classmate is successful as a imperial citizen and raw food guru Mister RAW on YouTube, he is perfect as a protagonist for a cinema documentary that immerses in the conspiracy haze around the Kingdom-Germany founder Peter Fitzek, who has been in custody since May 2025. It must have been clear to him in advance that he does not get away well – but he too, and that is perhaps the most terrifying experience of the film, believes in rock -proof in all of his own bullshit.
David Ekwebobise alias Mister Raw once more gives his protégé-highly questionable-health and life tips.
In one of his podcasts also available on YouTube, Mister Raw introduces himself as a “contagious” health activist: As is supposedly (!) Infectious diseases, his health is also contagious – if you only watch and listen to him. The “supposedly” in the self -description makes you take notice briefly, but otherwise it looks quite likeable, just like his first appearances in “The Soldiers of the Light”, in which the directors meet their protagonists without a classified comment and with a purely observing camera.
But the image of the activist raw food lobbyist gets cracks at the latest when Mister Raw briefly goes to the garden to make calls: A customer is obviously worried because the herbal sud does not help as quickly as hoped against cancer. But David calms him down with his gentle yet confident voice: the body only has to change – and everyone knows that cancer cells from 42 degrees would die anyway. What if friends or acquaintances say something? These are all just exams, you just have to trust him and his methods.
Descent into rabbit construction
That may sound like a big journalistic coup now, but it is not: Mister Raw finally tells the same potentially lifelong nonsense in his streams and videos. Incidentally, as well as the inhumane punch that the state only wants children with Down syndrome, but it can make them “normal” again-at least as long as you join your Inner Circle (advertising slogan: “The epicenter of health”), where online seminars will take place in the future. For (offline) people who have actually never descended into such or similar YouTube rabbit construction, this may be unmasking shock cinema-but this is nothing new for everyone else.
But apart from the fact that the hair-raising claims have a barely punished, voyeuristic entertainment value, “soldiers of the light”, especially in two places, penetrate a bit deeper: of course, all the conspiracy influencers at the end-very succinctly-also go with the coal. But at least Mister Raw, who previously had to struggle with drugs and violence, seems to believe his own stuss. Just like that of any other who comes to his YouTube programs as a guest-apparently this is an unwritten law of the scene anyway, which everyone has internalized there: “Do you believe my bullshit, I think yours!”
Timo is a deeply tragic figure, the worldview of which leaves you no less perplexed, but fate of which nevertheless touches you deeply.
On the other hand, there is a second protagonist Timo, a man in the late 30, who has continued to slip into the raw food stirring circle, especially during the Corona pandemic-and at the time of the recordings for food and logis as a kind of personal assistant for Mister RAW, which for this, among others. made his otherwise hardly affordable health juices available for deworming. Mister Raw has a look through after two minutes anyway. But the obviously difficult depressive Timo remains a mystery, because even when he “saves” himself back to his parents, he cannot remove many of the (nonsense) beliefs in the meantime.
Conclusion: Johannes Büttner and Julian Vogel reveal the everyday life of a Reich citizen and raw food influencers in “Soldiers of Light”. Her documentary provides added value compared to the pure diving into the rabbit construction of the YouTube videos of this scene because it provides a second protagonist with Timo, but also also bizarre-containing main figure. Its fate virtually prohibits the viewer to consider all the conspiracy sense put forward as a pure amusement spectacle.