Shane O'Sullivan's new film revisits the story of Germany's infamous terror group, but brings in the Japanese Red Army to offer a fresh comparison and insight into the terrorist psyche
Some chapters are never closed. Take the Baader-Meinhof gang. Roughly speaking, the story of Germany's infamous left-wing terror group began with the shooting of a young activist by the Berlin police in 1967, and ended 10 years later with the deaths of its remaining leaders in Stuttgart's Stammheim prison. But interest in the events that took place between never dims, news stories continue to throw new light on them, and invitations to return to the era are legion – an unsettling "walking art" project called Eamon and Ulrike Compliant currently lets you assume the identity of the group's intellectual figurehead, Ulrike Meinhof, both at large and under interrogation.
And then there are the films. Even before Stammheim, German cinema was wrestling with...
Some chapters are never closed. Take the Baader-Meinhof gang. Roughly speaking, the story of Germany's infamous left-wing terror group began with the shooting of a young activist by the Berlin police in 1967, and ended 10 years later with the deaths of its remaining leaders in Stuttgart's Stammheim prison. But interest in the events that took place between never dims, news stories continue to throw new light on them, and invitations to return to the era are legion – an unsettling "walking art" project called Eamon and Ulrike Compliant currently lets you assume the identity of the group's intellectual figurehead, Ulrike Meinhof, both at large and under interrogation.
And then there are the films. Even before Stammheim, German cinema was wrestling with...
- 8/26/2011
- by Danny Leigh
- The Guardian - Film News
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