Illuminati: Myths and Realities of a Parallel World

The Illuminati: They act in the shadows, they are extremely secretive and they practice ancient rituals. Secret societies play a far larger role in our everyday lives than we are aware of.
Publications like those of bestselling author Dan Brown with Illuminati have brought them back into the limelight.
This documentary accompanies historian Dr. Marian Füssel on his search for clues surrounding the history of the famous secret society Illuminati and the conspiracy theories about that group.
The secret brotherhood of the Illuminati was only active for ten years. They dreamed of having members of their brotherhood occupy crucial positions of power, thereby creating a new, fairer state.
Banned as early as 1785, rumors that ‘the enlightened ones’ still exist in secret cannot be dispelled.