Plot

In this historical context, the film assigns the RAF (Rote Armee Fraktion). In chronological order one receives lasting impressions of the radicalization of the happening.

With Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Ulrike Meinhof, the film focuses particularly on the foremosts of the RAF: on the one hand, their motives are shown to stand up for the oppressed around the world and against the ignorance of the western affluent society, and on the other hand their means, which no longer to shy away from violence against people and endanger the internal security of the state.—Ulf Kjell Gür