german terrorist films

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it seems that there are a number of german films dealing with terrorism (RAF, baader-meinhof): schlondorff's "the legend of rita", petzold's "the state i am in", veil's "black box brd", but does anyone know if there's been much writing done on these as a genre? links? suggestions of films? i'm just curious.

― a spectator bird (a spectator bird), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 21:00 (twenty-one years ago)

and other schlondorff films apply, including "the lost honor of katharina blum" (maybe the most obvious of this batch)

― a spectator bird (a spectator bird), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 21:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Another: Fassbinder's "The Third Generation."

Bruce LaBruce does a queer spoofy thing on Baader-Meinhof in his latest, "The Raspberry Reich" (shot in Berlin).

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 21:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, Victoria Mapplebeck did a documentary on the son of one of the women of the Baader-Meinhof group; one of the principle issues was on the depiction of his mother on-screen.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Thursday, 18 November 2004 05:06 (twenty-one years ago)

For writing and links, you could start with
http://www.baader-meinhof.com/

Another excellent film is Germany in Autumn, a collaboation among Fassbiner, Schlondorff, the great Alexander Kluge and many others mixing documentary and fiction to look at the Red Army Faction and the climate in Germany at the time.

― Dr Benway (dr benway), Thursday, 18 November 2004 07:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Uh, that's Fassbinder, with a "d".
And collaboration, with an "r".

― Dr Benway (dr benway), Thursday, 18 November 2004 07:37 (twenty-one years ago)

"baader" by christopher roth is the only german terorist film i know that isnt boring as fuck.

― :| (....), Thursday, 18 November 2004 11:44 (twenty-one years ago)

[i]What to Do in Case of Fire (Was tun, wenn's brennt?)[/i] is certainly an odd one, being that it's almost completely Hollywood from start to finish. Still, there's some parts of it worth watching (not least of which is the answer to the title, though that's given in the first minute of the film).

― Joshua Houk (chascarrillo), Friday, 26 November 2004 07:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Another good film: Die Bleierne Zeit. It might have a different title in English, or indeed German. Marguerite Von Trotha directs, I think.

Not quite the same thing, but similar 1970s Urban Guerilla stuff is "Good Morning, Night", now in cinemas everywhere, about the Red Brigades kidnap of Aldo Moro.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Friday, 26 November 2004 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)

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