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on the show german intellectuals run as terrorist sympathizers 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 history 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 through.

mother and son on a journey into the past back to the years of tara in the one nine hundred seventy s. and the father for just learned off. the must be run. in the new doctor. confronts his mother with her past actions and. difficult questions. from a play wouldn't have done. this for other filmmakers. that type of it this was a very emotional time with any painful memories. from outliving other no woman. left when tara police clampdowns assassinations and sympathizes the seventy's more divisive time in german history abscessed and intellectuals like fun time she learned off working stiff sympathizing with the terrorists for

a broad section of society that made them just as guilty. about well the good guys just as you. get duped yada like baffling look at the trial log you need a doctor so i can mustn't have often because i'm a. man or talk to many others who are brand mark to sympathizers because they fail to distance themselves from acts of terror. or simple design but it helps to reflect stop or see or. does and what did i dished out i was. lucky does or him it wouldn't and in that he i think he. was in others that this was so good. because of i'm out of word because i had him under scrutiny so if you don't put it in middle. school or lose us i used to know i was the nun does it. really gives the edge off because she and saw that. the

tensions that reigned at the time hard to imagine today the political films are slow and often trying hard to capture the excesses of the police state and the atmosphere of violence and counterviolence very well. yeah i'm tired of that in my mother's diary and there's a lot about fear. before that i don't want to go out today because there was some think in the newspaper again or on the television and i felt this to be transforming how really it was but i can't say even now. often or there is an interest in me for thought i got to know the sister of red army faction terrorist good one and slim so just what she used that relationship as material for one of her best films. i try doing that you probably would say you know dish well you know i'm glad i'm not in mourning at least he doesn't have to go i should wash

trial usually you will go to your campaign fund how to 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 the. nobel prize winner pearl became the main target of the media and politicians obsessed with draining the sympathizers 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 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 smartness vans initial even hits to if you didn't see the truth. in one nine hundred seventy seven it all came to a head of state of emergency was in force and learned of and from total work the center

of the storm. the night of stem of the murder of the hostage trial was a decisive turning point was it put a stop to things to the work that was the end of the sympathy that was really the breaking point for many and point to a few minute tells the story of his parents and of an extraordinary generation living through the dope 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 christoph 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 if celebrated major successes and they have big plans. how do they view german film. stars 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 a migrant background making films the diversity of german society is increasingly reflected in german film would be in georgia for 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 upbeat but what of it seems women directors have been coming more to the fore. for example the latest film and critical acclaim it was set in

a man's world and follows german construction workers in bulgaria on. your principle being. heavily armed have is a german french iranian filmmaker from berlin she often places her female figures in extreme situations he is here. the sinister stuff that awful selflessness to me doesn't and was too much for the. heroine hides a matter of so he can kill her. is this mission. attest latest film captures a moment with the actress who mission a year before her tragic death science yokels the way it won the best fellow at the german film awards and two thousand and eighteen years of. age of. debate as it's all the pictures are so unfiltered so real it's not only schneider the myth the stuff but whole mission out of

a human being and adorned in her grief and in her last for life. only. one kind their own another rescue is from a minor 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. leaving. the park's pretty 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 rightwing mob attacks a refugee shelter in germany in one thousand nine hundred two. both especially law it is a big fight. it was also the end of. his latest project also looks at germany

through the eyes of a newcomer this modern life i'm from my working on a remake of berlin alexanderplatz based on the novel by alfred berkeley 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 the. comma has already won a german film price his latest film premiered at the barely know 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 other side 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 advance brand of political film is quite different. not that kind of image 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 all starts writing just to talk it's quite a lot i suppose but on the ministerial me. yet. task after all of. it's a brilliant and causing comedy from one of the best in recent years the times to monday burn it to the computer to locate. those causes all around of course filmmakers need to address this to one of. the present informed by the past more diverse than ever face to face with german films a portrait of a generation that mirrors the new germany german film has never been this international.

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