This film takes place in Germany in 1967, “The children of
the Nazi generation have grown up in the devastation their parents created.
They vowed fascism would never rule again, in their fight for freedom they lost
themselves in the cause and ignited a revolution around the world.”
This film was made in 2008 and was written and produced by
Bernd Eichinger. It tells the story of four Germans who carry out the fire
bombing of a department store that was responsible for the death of a
protestor. The young protestor was killed because he was against the ruling of Mohammad
Reza Pahlavi, the leader of Iran. The group was then put on trial for the
bombing and were defended by a lawyer who shared the groups beliefs. After each
of their prison sentences were finished, the group had become more appealing to
young Germans; they became known as RAF. The RAF describes themselves as a
communist and anti imperialist urban guerilla group engaged in
armed resistance against what they viewed a fascist state. Members
of the RAF generally used the Marxist-Leninist term"Faction"
when they wrote in English. The German Government considered RAF a
terrorist organization because they were for responsible for nearly 300 bomb
attacks and murdered many people without reason from 1973 to 1995.
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