A 40-minute time bomb of political rage that asks who really holds the keys to justice.
On May 21, 1975, the trial of the members of the Red Army Faction (also known as the Baader-Meinstein Gang) began. Four members appeared before the Stuttgart court to answer for the attacks that had been raging for five years in the young Federal Republic of Germany. The documentary, whose title is borrowed from Berthold Brecht's In Praise of Dialectics, recounts the conditions of the trials and detention of the Baader-Meinstein Gang members and the disqualification of Klaus Croissant as their lawyer.
Direction
Boutang and Mohr weaponize courtroom footage like guerrilla filmmakers.
Editing
Ruthless compression of years of terror into 40 breathless minutes.
Director
Pierre-André Boutang
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Baader-Meinhof phenomenon spawned its own psychological term—the 'Baader-Meinhof effect'—though ironically that's about frequency illusion, not terrorism.
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