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A German Youth

Big World Pictures | Release Date: October 11, 2019

Summary: In the 1960s, the young democracy of West Germany was embarrassed by its Nazi past, and ingrown in its role as imperialist and capitalist outpost faced by its communist double. The postwar generation, in direct conflict with their fathers, was trying to find its place. The student movement exploded in 1966. The pas de deux between students and the government deteriorated, and radicalized those involved in a gradual escalation of violence and reprisals. From this seething youth emerged the journalist Ulrike Meinhof, filmmaker Holger Meins, students Andreas Baader and Gudrun Ensslin, as well as the lawyer Horst Mahler. When the student movement collapsed at the end of ’68, they remained isolated in their radicalism, and desperately sought ways to continue the revolutionary struggle. A German Youth (Une Jeunesse Allemande) chronicles the political radicalization of some German youth in the late 1960s that gave birth to the Red Army Faction (RAF), a German revolutionary terrorist group founded notably by Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof, as well as the images generated by this story. The film is entirely produced by editing preexisting visual and sound archives and aims to question viewers on the significance of this revolutionary movement during its time, as well as its resonance for today’s society. [Big World Pictures]

Details

Runtime:	93 min
Rating:	Not Rated
Official Site:	http://bigworldpictures.org/films/agermanyouth/index.html
Production:	ARTE
Genres:	History, Documentary
Countries:	DE, FR, CH
Languages:	English, German, French

Director	Credit
Jean-Gabriel Périot	Director

Writer	Credit
Anne Paschetta	Writer
Anne Steiner	Writer
Jean-Gabriel Périot	Concept
Nicole Brenez	Writer
Pierre Hodgson	Writer

Principal Cast	Credit
Andreas Baader	Himself
Gudrun Ensslin	Herself
Harun Farocki	Himself
Heinrich Böll	Himself
Helke Sander	Herself
Helmut Kohl	Himself
Holger Meins	Himself
Philip Werner Sauber	Himself
Rainer Langhans	Himself
Rudolf Augstein	Himself

Cast	Credit
Helmut Schmidt	Himself
Horst Mahler	Himself
Klaus Lemke	Himself
Thorwald Proll	Himself
Ulrike Meinhof	Herself

Producer	Credit
Christian von Behr	Commissioning Editor: RBB/ARTE
David Epiney	Co-Producer
Eugenia Mumenthaler	Co-Producer
Gaspard Lamuniere	Commissioning Editor: RTS
Irène Challand	Commissioning Editor: RTS
Meike Martens	Co-Producer
Nicolas Brevière	Producer