Description
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.
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Release Date1978
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Runtime2 hr 3 min
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Languagede
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Rating6.2 (28)
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Genres
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DirectorRainer Werner FassbinderBeate Mainka-JellinghausAlf BrustellinHans Peter CloosAlexander KlugeMaximiliane MainkaEdgar ReitzKatja RupéVolker SchlöndorffPeter SchubertBernhard Sinkel
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CastHannelore HogerAngela WinklerVadim GlownaKatja RupéHeinz BennentWolf BiermannJoachim BißmeierHelmut GriemDieter LaserManfred ZapatkaHorst MahlerRainer Werner FassbinderMario AdorfMargarethe von TrottaCaroline ChaniolleauHans Peter CloosOtto FriebelHildegard FrieseMichael GahrPetra KienerLisi MangoldEva MeierEnno PatalasFranziska Walser
