Durante le Olimpiadi del 1972 di Monaco il commando di estremisti palestinesi Settembre Nero prende in ostaggio e poi uccide gli atleti israeliani. A seguito dell'attentato, una squadra di cinque uomini viene segretamente incaricata dal governo di stanare e uccidere i responsabili. Avner, ex ufficiale del Mossad, figlio di un patriota, accetta di essere a capo della missione: per un lungo periodo dovrà abbandonare la sua identità e i suoi affetti...
In the early 60s, Bernward Vesper and fellow university student Gudrun Ensslin begin a passionate love in the stifling atmosphere of provincial West Germany. Dedicated to the power of the written word, Bernward and Gudrun found a publishing house whose first publication is, paradoxically to many, a controversial past work of Bernward's ostracized father, an infamous Nazi author. Bernward defends his father's writing ability, even if he is haunted by his father's suspicious past.
Clara and Hans are left-wing terrorists who have been sought by police for almost fifteen years. Their increasingly rebellious daughter Jeanne begins to pose a threat to their security when she falls in love with a boy she meets on the beach.
Un film collettivo, composto da elaborati documentaristici, storici, situazioni di finzione che tentano di raccontare il clima che si respirava nella Germania Ovest durante gli anni del terrorismo.
Coinvolto nella fabbricazione e collocazione di bombe artigianali in alcuni centri commerciali, Andreas Baader sostenuto da qualche militante estremista e dalla sua compagna Gudrun Ensslin, fonda la Rote Armee Fraktion, un gruppo terroristico di estrema sinistra. Dalle periferie tedesche agli altopiani della Siria, il gruppo fa il suo apprendistato e dà vita ad azioni violente che culmineranno in rapine, attentati e sequestri di persona. Diventano ben presto i nemici pubblici numeri uno nella Germania degli anni '70, fino a quando la polizia non si mette sulle loro tracce.
An epic meditation on psychoanalysis, the Baader-Meinhof, feminism, and pre-revolutionary Russia.
This documentary film essay analyses controversial police procedures in Germany in autumn 1974, when in a number of the police interventions suspects were killed before being arrested or tried.
In April 1975 Commando Holger Meins occupies the West German Embassy in Stockholm. In exchange for the hostages they want to force the release of RAF-prisoners in Germany; Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof, Gudrun Ensslin, etc. The occupation lasts twelve hours and ends in defeat for the occupants, left is a blown-up Embassy and four people dead, two of them executed by the occupants. Karl-Heinz Dellwo, 23 years old, is arrested and sentenced to jail. In 1995 he is released from prison. Today he lives in Hamburg with his girlfriend Ella, also a former terrorist. Karl-Heinz is trying to create a new life for himself, but he is always haunted by his violent past.
The filmmaker, Simon Brückner, goes in search of his long-deceased father, one of the central figures of the German students' movement. A picture of a multi-faceted character emerges and a piece of German history is retold.
In the early 1970s, Otto Schily and Hans-Christian Ströbele were part of the group of attorneys of the left-wing extraparliamentary opposition in Germany. In this function, they, for instance, represented the militant Horst Mahler in court. One thing that united all three of them was their goal to create a new and different republic. They viewed Federal Germany as an oppressor of political freedom and as a vassal of the United States. Today, Schily is a former Federal Minister of the Interior with a firmly conservative stance and Ströbele is a well-respected member of the left wing of the Green Party in the German parliament while Mahler has again come into conflict with the law because of his extremist right-wing activities.
Stammheim - is the law enforcement institution, the supreme courtroom and the last home of the RAF gang of 4. The time spent visiting with us was still in common with the 7th floor, where Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, Jan-Carl Raspe and Ulrike Meinhof were inaugurated. Former Prison Officer at Justizvollzugsanstalt Stuttgart-Stammheim, Renate Frede, accompanies us through the environment, premises, the special section and the events that surrounded the four RAF prisoners during their last days.