The '70s German terrorism that made the whole country hold its breath — history as nerve-shredding slow burn.
90 minSeason 1 • Episode 2
LatestThe second part tells of the inferno in the hijacked plane, of the negotiations between the Federal Criminal Police Office and the Stammheim prisoners for their alleged release into a foreign country. It ends with the collective suicide in the high-security wing of Stammheim and the shooting of Schleyer, who had hoped that the hijacking of the plane might give his fate another turn.
Docudrama in two parts, based on the abduction of the president of the employer's association of Germany, Hanns Martin Schleyer, by the Baader-Meinhof gang in the Autumn of '77.
Acting
Sebastian Koch's Baader is pure coiled menace in a leather jacket.
Production
Meticulous recreation of '77 — the cars, the fear, the bad suits.
Writing
Breloer's script treats both sides as true believers, not cartoons.
Creator
Heinrich Breloer
Sebastian Koch
Andreas Baader
Karoline Eichhorn
Brigitte Monhaupt
Manfred Zapatka
Helmut Schmidt
Dieter Mann
BKA-Präsident Horst Herold
Claudia Michelsen
Sieglinde Hofmann
Ulrich Matthes
Jan-Carl Raspe
Hans-Jörg Assmann
Alfred Klaus
Robert Viktor Minich
Jürgen Boock
Birol Ünel
Zohair Y. Akache aka 'Captain Mahmoud'
Hans Brenner
Hans-Martin Schleyer
Susanne Schäfer
Stewardess Gaby Dillmann
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Breloer filmed inside the actual Stammheim prison cells, closed since 1993, with government permission that took years to secure.
Released in 1997, this coincided with the RAF's official dissolution letter — Germans were finally ready to exhume their trauma.
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