Director: Uli Edel
Writers: Bernd Eichinger, Uli Edel, Stefan Aust (Book)
Cast: Martina Gedeck, Moritz Bleibtreu
Language:German
A look at Germany's terrorist group, The Red Army Faction (RAF), which organized bombings, robberies, kidnappings and assassinations in the late 1960s and '70s.
The portrayal is very raw and the film doesn't take sides. It just shows what they were without any glorification unlike how it usually happens with the films that deals these kind of subjects. I thought the second half was much better when all the main characters are imprisoned and their minions outside progress from one fuck-up to another.
The term Baader-Meinhof phenomenon is also used to refer to frequency illusion in which a word or thing that recently has come to one's attention suddenly appears everywhere with improbable frequency. I am also experiencing the same with what I have been viewing lately with the Adam Curtis documentaries and getting familiarized with the '70s.
Rating: 3.5/5
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