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a new documentary on the shadow of political terror in the one nine hundred seventy s. and face to face with german film a new generation of german directors take popular and history would make it into a memorable movie. fifty years ago in one hundred sixty eight student protests heralded a social revolution in its wake some radicalized young germans took up arms against the state the red army faction's terrorist campaign shook germany to its core a new documentary shows how the authorities blanket suspicion of left wing intellectuals led to deep rifts in german society director felix muller also gets his own mother and stepfather both famous political filmmakers themselves to open up about their actions at the time. and fuel. mother and son on

a journey into the past back to the years of tara in the one nine hundred seventy s. i don't want to mention the father for sure and all of. it is inside the young. and the new dr. to near confront his mother with her past actions and views and poses difficult questions. yet me probably wouldn't have done this for other filmmakers. that type of but this was a very emotional time with many painful memories. from outliving other no woman. left when tara please clampdowns assassinations and sympathizers the seventy's were divisive time in german history abscessed and intellectuals like from top time slumdog recused to sympathizing with the terrorists for a broad section of society that made just as guilty. wouldn't argue about it but we

did it in geist de mint stand by to. get duped yeah the long profit in looking at the log evidence you need a dog. mustn't have to. manage talk to many others who are brand to sympathizers because they fail to distance themselves from acts of terror. from a simple design but it helps to afflict us stop a c.e.o. who does and that there's a difference but i was. lucky does the him it wouldn't and end it he i think. that's enough that's their business sue good oh yeah because of i'm up we're under scrutiny so if you don't we put it in middle. school lose us i used to know i was the nun does it. just because she and saw that.

the tensions that reigned at the time hard to imagine today the political films are slow and often from hard to capture the excesses of the police state and the atmosphere of violence and counterviolence very well. you know i'm tired of this in my mother's diaries there's a lot about fear. we heard i don't want to go out today because there was something in the newspaper again or on the television that. i felt this to be transformative but how really it was i can't say even now. often harder is interested me for thought i got to know the sister of red army faction terrorist goodwin and slim. just she used that relationship as material for one of her best films. why didn't you probably would say you know dish well you know i'm glad i'm on a morning at her own admission he has got to go i should wash try usually you will come to your campaign from tata herself spent time behind bars for contempt of

court she interjected in a cool case when the judge misquoted the accused. as if it's a good idea that this is all. about prize money became the main target of the media and politicians are obsessed with draining the sympathisers swamp where terrorism bred. done well you're not really sure these are the conservative press effectively declared open season on him. was labeled as a sympathizer with him but he was called the spiritual father of terrorism was his house was searched by police a number of times in the presence of his children small vans initially even if it hits two didn't see it. in one nine hundred seventy seven it all came to a head a state of emergency was in force and learned of and from what i were at the center of the storm. the night of stem of the murder of the hostage trial was

a decisive turning point yet it put a stop to things to work that was the end of the sympathy that was really the breaking point for many. fewer mother tells the story of those parents and of an extraordinary generation living through the dark days of terror. german films is the body that promotes homegrown german movies around the world it's face to face campaign already introduced just some exciting actors and actresses now it's the director's turn my colleague hence christophe book met up with six filmmakers who like to delve into the past to produce movies relevant to the present. face to face the director's cut six directors who are children of the eighty's a generation of filmmakers equally at home with movies and t.v. series they know what they want and how to get it they've celebrated major

successes and they have big plans. how do they view the german film. the start of the german film scene is more exciting than ever perhaps because we are slowly moving towards a gender balance in terms of men and women making films in germany but there are also more and more people with the my current background making films the diversity of german society is increasingly reflected in german film would be in towards the fear of the toilets mechanics and the great thing is that you can't say german film as this or german film is that that's not exciting there are different german voices and this is now being recognised abroad. the german filmmakers are update but one of the themes women directors have been coming more to the fore . about for example the latest film and critical acclaim it was set in a man's world and follows german construction workers in bulgaria. it's

over the. family out half is a german french iranian filmmaker from berlin she often places her female figures in extreme situations he's here. recently stopped at. doesn't stop the seems to me that as the last mission of. the heroin hides a murderous that he can kill her. is this mission. a test latest film captures a moment with the actress who mission either a year before her tragic death is one struggles the way it won the best film lol at the german film awards in two thousand and eighteen years of she unfolds a. debate as exhaust the pictures are so unfiltered so real it's not only schneider the myth the star but who schneider the human being and adorned in her grief and her lost for life. only. one kind their own another rescue

is from pneumonia she came to germany at the age of eleven. tries a much faster is a wild trip through the eastern bloc in the late sixty's. not. least. the park springs big and small acts of resistance world events mixed with family history. also has an immigrant background his parents were afghan refugees his stories deal with modern realities a right wing mob attacks our refugee shelter in germany in one thousand nine hundred two. in suspension mo who is a good site. it was also the end of. his latest project also looks at germany through the eyes of a newcomer this modern life and from working on

a remake of berlin alexanderplatz it was based on the novel by alfred dirk written in one thousand nine hundred thirty but we're setting it in the modern day in twenty eighteen my main character is a refugee a man who made his way across the sea by boat and has landed in berlin now he's trying to find his way in this strange new world this new germany because of. nasscom has already won a german film price his latest film premiered at the pan in on a school class the communist east germany observes a minute's silence for those killed in hungary an uprising of nine hundred fifty six with dramatic consequences. the fact that the sign of revolution is about an extraordinary situation ordinary schoolchildren put under extreme pressure in the early days of communist east germany it's about the moment of political awakening in the life of every young adult. that invents brand of political film is quite different.

like the front of him and i don't make films that are just comedy but i think especially with serious topics humor is important and helps to make things bearable their control it does can tighten his guitar get a lot i spoke on the ministerial me. yet. after all and sometimes. it's a brilliant and hard hitting comedy one of the best in recent years good luck returns to monday monday with the traditional get. those cars all around of course filmmakers need to address this to the north of. the present informed by the past more diverse than ever face to face with german films a portrait of a generation that marries the new germany german film has never been this international.

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