RAF - The german Red Army Fraction in the Movies
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- DirectorUli EdelStarsMartina GedeckMoritz BleibtreuJohanna WokalekA look at Germany's terrorist group, The Red Army Faction (RAF), which organized bombings, robberies, kidnappings, and assassinations in the late 1960s and '70s.
- DirectorVolker SchlöndorffStarsBibiana BeglauRichard KropfMartin WuttkeThe riveting true story of Rita Vogt, a 1970s West German terrorist who escapes to the East with the help of the Stasi. She lives in constant fear of having her cover blown, until it unavoidably happens after the German re-unification.
- DirectorChristopher RothStarsFrank GieringLaura TonkeVadim GlownaAndreas Baader starts out as a small-time criminal. In Berlin, he is recruited by a revolutionary cell. They plan to overthrow the state.
- DirectorChristian PetzoldStarsJulia HummerBarbara AuerRichy MüllerClara and Hans are left-wing terrorists who have been sought by police for almost fifteen years. Their increasingly rebellious daughter begins to pose a threat to their security when she falls in love with a boy she meets on the beach.
- DirectorRainer Werner FassbinderAlf BrustellinHans Peter CloosStarsWolfgang BächlerHeinz BennentWolf BiermannGermany in Autumn has no typical plot; it mixes documentary footage with standard movie scenes to present the mood of Germany during the late 1970s. The film covers 2 months in 1977 when a businessman was kidnapped and murdered by the left-wing terrorists known as the RAF-Rote Armee Fraktion (Red Army Faction). The businessman was 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. The film has several vignettes, including an extended set of scenes with famous director Rainer Werner Fassbinder discussing his feelings about Germany's political situation at the time. Fassbinder's scenes almost seem to be candid documentary footage, but they aren't. Other scenes include documentary footage of the joint funeral of Baader, Enslin, and Raspe.
- DirectorHeinrich BreloerStarsHans BrennerRobert Viktor MinichBirol ÜnelDocudrama in two parts, based on the abduction of the president of the employer's association of Germany, Hanns Martin Schleyer, by the Baader-Meinhof gang in the Autumn of '77.
- DirectorVolker SchlöndorffMargarethe von TrottaStarsAngela WinklerMario AdorfDieter LaserA young woman's life is scrutinized by police and tabloid press after she spends the night with a suspected terrorist.
- DirectorMargarethe von TrottaStarsJutta LampeBarbara SukowaRüdiger VoglerTwo sisters both fight for women's rights. Juliane is a journalist and Marianne a terrorist. When Marianne is jailed, Juliane feels obligated to help her despite their differing views on how to live.
- DirectorRainer Werner FassbinderStarsEddie ConstantineHanna SchygullaVolker SpenglerA wildly anarchic satire of urban guerrilla warfare in which a band of leftist radicals inadvertently become puppets of the West German government, which uses them to justify its authoritarian policies.
- DirectorReinhard HauffStarsBruno GanzAngela WinklerHans Christian BlechDuring a police raid on a youth center, the biogeneticist Hoffmann is shot in the head. When he awakes from a coma, he can't remember anyting. The police accuse him of being a terrorist.
- StarsEdgar RamírezAlexander ScheerFadi Abi SamraThe story of Venezuelan revolutionary Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, who founded a worldwide terrorist organization and raided the 1975 OPEC meeting.
- DirectorGerd ConradtStarsMichael BallhausSuzanne BeyelerManfred Blessmann"Starbuck", the name of the navigator from the book Moby Dick, was also the undercover alias of Holger Meins (1941-1974), the navigator of the Baader-Meinhof group. A documentary about a young man who died at the age of 33 as a result of a hunger strike in prison.
- DirectorAndres VeielStarsPater AugustinusRoswitha Bleith-BendieckPaul BrandWolfgang Grams, RAF terrorist, killed in a police shoot out in 1993 was thought to be part of the 1989 murder of high placed banker Alfred Herrhausen. This documentary interviews people close to Herrhausen and Grams showing what made them the people they became.
- DirectorCarlo RolaStarsPeter SimonischekIris BerbenNina ProllA war photographer returns from abroad. He is shocked: His lifelong love has disappeared. The police patrol in the dark. In Salzburg, he meets Petra who knows the missing woman from before - under another name.
- DirectorDennis GanselStarsJürgen VogelNadeshda BrennickeMathias HerrmannAfter the partner of a policeman is killed he is drawn into a mysterious plot of conspiracy and terrorists.
- DirectorAndres VeielStarsAugust DiehlLena LauzemisAlexander FehlingWest Germany, early 1960s. Star crossed lovers Bern and Gudrun begin a life long affair in the stifling atmosphere of provincial Germany. Setting out to challenge the establishment they become part of the global uprising joining forces with leftist writers and political activists. By the late 60s Gudrun has joined the gang lead by Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof and Bern risks his sanity to finally writing a novel to change the world. An emotional true story of an explosive era starring August Diehl (Inglourious Basterds (2009), A Hidden Life (2019), Salt (2010)).
- DirectorConnie WalterStarsChristoph BachGottfried BreitfussUwe KockischAfter two decades in prison Widmer, a former German RAF-terrorist, is released. He meets Valerie, his next door neighbour. The young woman tries to get her life back on track after she lost child custody for her little son. She shows some interest in Widmer, the two of them seem to have something in common. They discreetly enter into the secrets of their lives. Till the truth comes between them.
- DirectorReinhard HauffStarsUlrich TukurHans KremerTherese AffolterStammheim Prison in Stuttgart, West Germany, as the five defendants--Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof Gudrun Ensslin, Jan-Carl Raspe, and Holger Meins--are brought before the judge and accused of the murder of four US servicemen in a terrorist bombing attack. After a hunger strike at the trial's start, Meins dies. The next to die is Meinhof, an apparent suicide. As the trial stretches on, Baader, Ensslin, and Raspe continuously disrupt the proceedings with accusations that they are being purposely undernourished and spied upon.
- DirectorRoland Suso RichterStarsThomas KretschmannNadja UhlSaïd TaghmaouiIn 1977, skyjackers abduct Lufthansa Flight 181, subsequently involving Germany's special operations unit GSG 9 to free all the hostages.
- DirectorSusanne SchneiderStarsKatharina SchüttlerIris BerbenJacques FrantzThirty years after giving her daughter up for adoption in order to join the terrorist underground in Germany, Judith is tracked down by her now adult daughter Alice to a vineyard in the Alsace where she is now living with a new family and a new identity. Alice calls on her mother to give herself up, but Judith doesn't regret any of her past deeds.
- DirectorRenato De MariaStarsRiccardo ScamarcioGiovanna MezzogiornoFabrizio RongioneAn Italian man looks back from his jail cell on his youthful exploits as a political extremist with understanding, candour and remorse.
- DirectorNina GrosseStarsSebastian KochSylvester GrothKatja RiemannAfter being released from prison, former RAF terrorist Jens Kessler spends his first weekend in freedom with friends from the past; among them are his former lover Inga and her husband. As the tension mounts, it takes only one spark to trigger an eruption of hostility.