STORY
The film does not have a plot per se; it mixes documentary footage, along with standard movie scenes, to give the audience the mood of Germany during the late 1970s. The movie covers the two-month time period during 1977 when a businessman was kidnapped and later murdered by the left-wing terrorists known as the RAF-Rote Armee Fraktion (Red Army Fraction). The businessman had been kidnapped in an effort to secure the release of the original leaders of the RAF, also known as the Baader-Meinhof gang. When the kidnapping effort and a plane hijacking effort failed, the three most prominent leaders of the RAF, Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, and Jan-Carl Raspe, all committed suicide in prison. It has become an article of faith within the left-wing community that these three were actually murdered by the state.
CAST & CREW
- Hannelore Hoger
- Angela Winkler
- Vadim Glowna
- Katja Rupé
- Heinz Bennent
Cast
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Alf Brustellin
- Alexander Kluge
- Edgar Reitz
- Peter Schubert
Directors
INFORMATION
- ABS Filmproduktion
- Tango Film
- Kairos-Film
Production Companies
- Germany
Production Countries
LANGUAGES
- German