Documentary Drama
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.
Directed by
Maximiliane Mainka, Katja Rupé, Edgar Reitz, Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus, Bernhard Sinkel, Peter Schubert, Alexander Kluge, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Volker Schlöndorff, Hans Peter Cloos, Alf Brustellin
Hannelore Hoger
Gabi Teichert
Caroline Chaniolleau
Helmut Griem
TV-Redakteur
Mario Adorf
TV committee member (uncredited)
Dieter Laser
Abgeordneter (TV Aufsichtsgremium)
Katja Rupé
Franziska Busch
Heinz Bennent
Mitglied des Kommitees
Angela Winkler
Antigone
Vadim Glowna
Freiermuth
Michael Gahr
Manfred Zapatka
Franziska Walser
Joachim Bißmeier
TV-Redakteur
Wolf Biermann
Self
Horst Mahler
Self
Hans Peter Cloos
Otto Friebel
Hildegard Friese
Lisi Mangold
Eva Meier
Enno Patalas

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