Stammheim (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Stammheim |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1986 |
| length | 107 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Reinhard Hauff |
| script | Stefan Aust |
| production |
Jürgen Flimm Eberhard Junkersdorf u. a. |
| music | Marcel Wengler |
| camera |
Frank Brühne Günther Wulff |
| cut | Heidi Handorf |
| occupation | |
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Stammheim (Alternative title: Stammheim - The Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe in court ) is an award-winning feature film by Reinhard Hauff from 1986 about the Stammheim trial and the death of several accused RAF members in the correctional facility in Stuttgart-Stammheim . The script was written by Stefan Aust .
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Reinhard Hauff's film describes the course of the most important terrorist trial in German history, which took place in Stuttgart-Stammheim from 1975 to 1977. The defendants, Ulrike Meinhof , Andreas Baader , Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe are on trial . The film leaves it open whether the three last-named people perish after their convictions by their own hands or through outside influence (see Stammheim's Night of Death ).
In April 2008 the film was released on DVD.
Reviews
“The film is running and the dungeons of the will to forget are opening. In a changed shape, but still recognizable, the characters from ten years ago return to the (reconstructed) Stammheim court bunker to fight their battle again in this concrete-gray limbo, like enchanted warriors of legend. The agonizing hateful dispute flares up again between the enemies of the Federal Republic and the state officials in black and red robes. But what at that time, in reality, seemed remote and unreal, now gains an oppressive closeness and authenticity in the film. "
“The film gradually pulls you into the Stammheim hell, and after initial resistance you accept that the four talented, passionate actors who are the focus are Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe. The process in which, as in a duel between generations, between robes and jeans, they contra court seems like a senseless, idle exchange of blows. That increases his cruelty. The reasoning only makes sense to insiders. Those who are neither familiar with the Baader-Meinhof language nor the legal language will sometimes faintly wish to be able to cover their ears. "
“Based on authentic protocols and renouncing dramaturgical accessories, the staging is deliberately limited to verbatim recitation without illuminating the political and social background of the case. Hauff's voluntary asceticism leaves many questions unanswered, but enables oppressive insights into the interior of a judicial apparatus that is overwhelmed by the political explosiveness of the matter and shows weaknesses. Although in no way euphemistic in the defendants' portraits, the film makes an important contribution to the understanding of politically motivated violence and provokes a renewed examination of a taboo, as yet unresolved chapter of German history. "
Awards
- 1986: Golden Bear and FIPRESCI Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival
The screening took place under police protection as there were death threats against the jurors. Despite the presence of the police, the performance was disrupted by, among other things, stink bombs. The jury president Gina Lollobrigida publicly distanced herself from the film's award.
Web links
- Stammheim in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Stammheim at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Stammheim . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2007 (PDF; test number: 56 180 V / DVD / UMD).
- ↑ a b Wilhelm Bittorf : The feeling that one's head explodes . In: Der Spiegel . No. 5 , 1986, pp. 160-168 ( online ).
- ^ Siegfried Schober: The end of a dream. “Stammheim”: A film that tears open old wounds . In: Die Zeit , No. 6/1986. "In the sixties, when I was twenty, I met Andreas Baader in a pub."
- ↑ Stammheim. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 9, 2015 .
- ↑ The vote was prefabricated . In: Der Spiegel . No. 10 , 1986 ( online interview with Lollobrigida on the reasons for their rejection).