Baader Meinhof : In Love with Terror
In October 1977, the leadership of the German leftwing terrorist group Baader-Meinhof, died in a German high-security prison. Their apparent suicides hailed the end of a long and bloody struggle to start a revolution in one of the world’s richest democracies.
25 years on In Love With Terror traces this astonishing story through extraordinary interviews with former group members, never-before seen archive footage, secret police reports and obscure government files. Featuring interviews with ex-RAF members Astrid Proll, Horst Mahler and Margrit Schiller, insiders Dieter Kunzelmann and Thorvald Troll. and former German chancellor Helmut Schmidt.
“‘The whole commentary is sampled,’ says Lewis. ‘I asked myself, how would a DJ make a documentary?’ … the film evokes the hysteria, inexorably rising violence and paranoia of the time. and is an honourable attempt to separate fact from myth. “I wanted to show what it was like to be them then, and to be represented then, ‘ Lewis suggests. ‘It’s a story constructed from the stories told in the media so it is very much about how they were fictionalised.”
