All language subtitles for The Baader-Meinhof Complex (2008)

A TRUE STORY

SYLT, GERMANY
JUNE, 1967

MY LIFE AS AN EMPRESS

Hey! Come on, my sweets,
out of the water!

Oh, Mom! Just a little more!

Out with you, right this minute!

Your skin's turned blue!

Oh, she's pretty! Who is that?

It's the Shah of Persia and his wife.

Ah, my three beauties!

- Daddy, what's a shah?
- It's like an emperor.

A shah is allowed to chop off
the head of anyone he doesn't like.

- Stop telling the kids such nonsense.
- People can take the truth.

Don't joke about such things.

Hi, Klaus.
How's the revolution going?

Right now it's on holiday.

Are you two coming to our party?

- Of course.
- Okay, see you then.

Right on!

Oh, Klaus, stop that!

- There we go.
- You're a pain!

That's better.
At least she's smiling.

The Shah and Empress Farah

landed at 11:05 on a chartered plane
at Tempelhof Airport.

Empress Farah arrived
wearing a fox-red outfit

with a black-and-white striped hat.

During the parade, Shah Reza Pahlavi
inspected the honor guard

of Berlin's police force.

Stefan, my friend!

Fresh from the printer's.

Listen up!

My star columnist and clever wife

wrote an open letter
to Her Majesty Farah Diba.

- Don't make such a fuss.
- Come on, Ricky, baby.

It'll be published
in the next issue of “Konkret."

5,000 of these flyers have already
been distributed at the universities.

All right.

OPEN LETTER TO FARAH DIBA

"Good day, Mrs. Pahlavi.

You say that at home in Iran
it is very hot in the summer,

and that you, like most Persians,
take your family to the Caspian Sea.

'Like most Persians...'
Isn't that an exaggeration?

Most Persians are farmers with an annual
income of less than 100 Marks.

And most Persian women
lose every second child

to hunger, poverty and disease.

And the children
who work 14 hours a day...

Do they too, most of them,
go to the Persian Riviera in the summer?

You write,
'The Shah of Persia must have a son.'

The Iranian Constitution, you write,
is very strict about this.

Strange that the Shah seems to ignore
the constitution otherwise

so that no publication
goes uncensored in Persia,

the Minister of Justice
had his eyes gouged out,

the public is excluded
from court trials,

torture is an everyday part
of the Persian legal system.

We don't want to insult you,

but we don't want the German public
to be insulted

by articles like yours
in the 'Neue Revue.'

Respectfully, Ulrike Meinhof."

DEUTSCHE OPER BERLIN

Long live the Emperor!

AUTONOMY FOR THE UNIVERSITY
OF TEHRAN

Welcome, Pahlavi!

MURDERERS!

Long live the Emperor!

MURDERERS OUT OF WEST BERLIN

Murderers!

Is he crazy?

Swine!

Murderers! Murderers!

Are you crazy?

Do something!

Don't touch me, asshole!

Hey! Stop it!

Hey!

Is there a doctor somewhere?

Is there a doctor?

Let us through!

We need a doctor!

Don't you see what's going on here?
Are you insane?

Look at the woman!

Can you help us? She's injured!

Hey!

What are you doing?

Stop! You can't do this!

It just went off on me.

Are you crazy?

Let's get out of here.

He needs a doctor.

Mrs. Meinhof, you took the side
of the demonstrating students.

Why?

The right-wing press
blames the students

for the catastrophe of June 2nd.

The Springer Publishing Group
uses its newspapers

to demonize the critical voices
of students as hooligans.

"For these juveniles,
it's no longer enough to raise hell,

they have to see blood."

The truth is that the protests
of these students

have exposed our state
as a police state.

Police and press terror reached a peak
on the 2nd of June in Berlin,

and we now know
that freedom in this country

means freedom for police brutality.

Mrs. Meinhof, with all respect...

We all know that Kurras
shot Ohnesorg,

and that he'll be acquitted.

That's demagogy!

THE BATTLE FOR JERUSALEM

This is demagogy.

While America discusses
the use of nuclear weapons in Vietnam,

Israel, with American support,
initiates a war of aggression

and shamelessly labels it
a preventive war.

It's Israel's right to defend itself.

Then, Hitler's attacks on Poland,
France, and Russia were preventive, too.

- That's completely one-sided.
- You can't argue like that!

I must say...

Have some consideration for the child.

That woman doesn't argue rationally.

How can you say that?
American imperialism stops at nothing.

First, Vietnam, Bolivia...
And now the Middle East!

For years America has pumped weapons
into Israel.

Every fighter jet, every rocket, tank,

is supplied by the U.S.A.
or other Western countries.

Do you think the Americans
are acting out of pure philanthropy?

Those swine only want control
of the Middle East oil fields!

They couldn't give a shit
if 10,000 people die!

Sorry, I have to go to church.

Well, why don't you preach that over
half the world's population is starving,

while others bathe in luxury!

That there's no use
in just praying for a better world!

That they have to fight back, damn it!

You two should get married soon.

Ulrike!

Wait!

Wait!

At last!

- Hello, baby!
- Hey, Kitty!

All right, here we go.

I hope it's enough.

What's that going to be?

Why?

What is it?

We want to scorch the store,
not torch it!

Hit hard, or forget about it!

The fuckers
need to know we're not bluffing.

- And if there are people in the store?
- Don't be a pussy!

In the middle of the night?

And if there is, good! Bigger headlines!

Are you crazy?

Shut the fuck up!
Andreas knows what he's doing.

- Police! You're under arrest!
- Police! Hands behind your back!

You're under arrest for arson.

Good morning.

The continued bombardment
by American warplanes

against suspected Viet Cong positions

is taking its toll
on the civilian population.

These shocking images have triggered

student protests at universities
across the United States.

And in West Germany, thousands
demonstrated against the Vietnam War,

for example, here in Berlin,
where the anarchist Rudi Dutschke,

head of the extra-parliamentary
opposition,

has mobilized resistance.

Comrades! We don't have much time!

In Vietnam we're being crushed.
Vietnam is tragically isolated.

"The point is not,..." says Che,...

"... to wish the victim of aggression success,
but rather..."

... to take part in his plight,...

... to accompany him
to death or to victory!"

REVOLUTION IS PART OF THE FIGHT

FREEDOM FROM OPPRESSION

VICTORY FOR THE VIETNAMESE REVOLUTION

From German soil...

From German soil
wars are still being prepared!

The American military
is turning German garrison towns...

... into bases for the war in Vietnam.

We will not allow the German government...

... to be misused by the Americans
as a lackey...

... in their imperialist war in Vietnam!

- Aren't you Ulrike Meinhof?
- Yes.

This forces us to take illegal action,
such as sabotage and blockades!

We protest against this conference!

Ladies and gentlemen,
this conference is over!

- Get lost!
- Remove him!

Reactionary!

Are you Rudi Dutschke?

Yes, I am.

You dirty Communist swine!

He has a gun! Look out!

He's dead. Let him live.

Father, Mother...

I have to go to the barber.
To the barber.

Soldiers! Soldiers...

He went down there!
He has to be here somewhere!

Take cover!

Come out with your hands up!

I can't stand Communists.

Rudi Dutschke is undergoing
yet another emergency operation.

Doctors were able to remove
one of the bullets from his head.

Meanwhile, youths across the country
are demonstrating,

accusing the Springer Group
of being responsible for the attack.

"Bild" pulled the trigger!

Springer, murderers!

- "Bild" pulled the trigger!
- Springer, murderers!

Rudi Dutschke! Rudi Dutschke!

I'd never have thought
you'd be part of something like this!

Let rne go, you pigs!

Attention! This is the police!

You are illegally trespassing
on private property.

Leave the grounds at once!

Leave the grounds at once!

Come with us!

Murderers!

Mrs. Meinhof, what are you doing here?

Release her! She's a journalist.

Fucking cops!

Dresden!

Hiroshima!

Vietnam!

Dresden!

Hiroshima!

Vietnam!

And that is the problem in Saigon.

VIETNAM

Can the government forces eject
the Viet Cong from the city or not'?

BOLMA

Che Guevara was captured
by the Bolivian Army and the CIA

during a battle and then murdered.

U SA.

Martin Luther King
was assassinated yesterday.

...approached Robert Kennedy
and shot him.

Richard Nixon has become
the 37th President of the U.S.A.

MEXICO

In Mexico City 5,000 students
and workers are demonstrating.

- They sealed off the square.
- 500 died in the massacre.

...with the first...

CZECHOSLOVAKIA

Soviet vehicles. Half an hour later...

FRANCE

The students have described the events
in Paris as a "cultural revolution."

The state describes it as anarchy.

WEST BERLIN

The more I hear such rabble-rousing,
the clearer it becomes to me

how important it is
to establish order in this country.

As agreed with Andreas Baader,
I'd like to make a statement:

He and I are responsible for the fire.

We set fire to the department store.

We did it to protest against the apathy

with which people sit back
and watch the genocide in Vietnam.

We learned
that talk without action is wrong.

Silence, please!

Silence, please!

Mr. Mahler!

Mr. Mahler, do the court the honor
and let us join in your discussion.

I doubt the judges can follow
Mr. Baader and Ms. Ensslin's thinking.

If so, you'd take off your robes
and lead the protest movement!

Silence!

Silence, please!

Your daughter's act was meant
to admonish your generation.

What she wanted to say is this:

A generation that experienced firsthand
how, in the name of the people,

concentration camps were built,
anti-Semitism spread,

and genocide committed,
cannot allow new beginnings,

reformation and rebirth
to be for naught.

How has your relationship
with your daughter

changed with this act?

It was surprising for me
to see how Gudrun,

who was always very rational,

reached a state of almost euphoric
self-realization through this act.

A holy self-realization.

I sense that she has achieved
something liberating,

even in the family.

Suddenly, I myself feel liberated
from a constriction

and from the fear that previously
dominated my life.

She released rne from my fears.

If you throw one stone,
it's a punishable offense.

If 1,000 stones are thrown,
it's political action.

If you set a car on fire,
it's a punishable offense.

If hundreds of cars are set on fire,
it's political action.

Protest is when I say
I don't agree with something.

Resistance is when I ensure

that things with which I disagree
no longer take place.

Thanks for agreeing to this.

It's okay.
I'm familiar with your columns.

Do you think
that department store arson

can stop the genocide in Vietnam?

No. In that sense, it was a mistake.
I already said so in court.

Look at it as rebellion.

This time we won't sit idly
as Fascism spreads, like under Hitler.

This time we will put up resistance.
We have a historical responsibility.

People here and in America

have to eat, eat, and shop,

so they can never reflect
or gain awareness,

because otherwise they might
have to do something.

Is that why you set fire
to the department store?

I'll never resign myself to do nothing.
Never.

If they shoot our people,
like Ohnesorg and Dutschke,

then we are going to shoot back.

That's the logical consequence.

You're not serious?

All over the world,
armed comrades are fighting.

We must show our solidarity.

But we do.

Even if the Fascists throw you in jail?

Such sacrifices have to be made.

Or do you think that your theoretical
masturbation will change anything?

I didn't mean it like that.

Is Baader or Gudrun here?

Gudrun's upstairs.

- Oh, sorry.
- Hello. Who are you?

My name's Peter Boock.

I'm Gudrun.

Did you run away?

- Juvenile detention center.
- Same as the others.

They're all joining us.
We're setting up our own center here.

Can I take a bath after you?

Come on in. Saves water.
You can tell rne about yourself.

- Where did that happen?
- Glückstadt juvi.

Fucking cops!

I've got something for you, assholes!

I heard about that.
You almost burned the place down.

They almost beat us to death for it.

If they catch rne,
I won't get out until I'm 21.

Don't worry, you're family now.

You guys got busted for arson, right?

Yeah, but they let us out
pending the appeal.

One of the conditions was that we do
social work. That's what we're doing.

Great.

Andreas and I may have to disappear
in case they reject our appeal.

What is this?
You trying to fuck my woman?

Hey, Kitty-

Andreas, this is Peter.

- What happened to you?
- It was those bastards in Glückstadt.

We'll fuck them up, too.

Cool leather jacket.

Here, keep it.

Now let's hit Darmstadt and have fun!

- We don't have enough cars.
- Then we'll steal two. Or three.

Only a gun makes it fun!

Go ahead! Open fire!

Open fire!

WIESBADEN -
FEDERAL CRIMINAL POLICE OFFICE (BKA)

Our people must spare no effort
to gain more understanding.

Let us dare to become more democratic.

These words, spoken
by the new Chancellor Willy Brandt

in his inaugural speech,
offer reconciliation to the students

and put an end to nearly three years
of riots in the Federal Republic.

His promises of reform
had a calming effect at universities

and will help integrate
the student opposition

into the democratic process.

- And what do you think?
- I think the episode is over.

The mass movement
has lost its momentum.

I don't agree.

I think that groups that view
our society as oppressive,

and I mean existentially oppressive,

will not hesitate to throw bombs

at what they see
as society's rigid mentality.

ROME, ITALY
FEBRUARY, 1970

Look.

Are you looking for us?

Gudrun?

Andreas.

Hallo, Astrid.

Mr. Fancy Lawyer.

And? What are your plans now?

Can't you talk normally?

Or do you think Interpol is after us
just because our appeal was rejected?

Andreas and I won't go back to jail.

Then come back to Berlin, illegally.
We're forming a new group.

What kind of a group?
Bunch of jerk-offs?

We're further than you think.
A lot has happened.

We have good contacts.
Apartments, papers, money, weapons.

We can get it all.

Sure, and all under your leadership.

Mr. Fancy Lawyer going underground!

- I shit myself.
- At least let him finish.

He couldn't steal my grandma's poodle!

That's off the point.

How's Dutschke doing?

He's living in London.
He's brain-damaged, can hardly talk.

Since the shooting,
no one really knows what to do.

Nonsense!

Rudi was finished before he was shot!
That jerk-off!

- Let's see what you are made of.
- Huh?

Empty that woman's bag
before she returns.

Baby!

I just want to see
if our lawyer has any guts.

You're all talk.

Fucking shit,
they're stealing my car! Hey!

Stop the car! You fucking wops!

Shit!

Idiot! You probably forgot to lock it!

Calm down.
We'll steal a new one.

You cunts! Cunts!

Damn it!

What?

- What are you doing here?
- And you?

Go ahead, call the cops.

- Where's Ulrike?
- In bed.

- Where's the bedroom?
- Back there.

Uh... hold on.

Be quiet. You'll wake the kids.

We're back.

- But you're wanted.
- So what?

- Can we stay here for now?
- Yeah, sure.

We're looking for people here in Berlin
and in other cities as well.

We're forming a group. We're going
to change the political situation.

- How is that possible?
- What a fucking bourgeois question!

We'll just do it, or we'll die trying.

That's enough for today.
Where can I crash?

I'll be right there.

- What does he mean by that?
- He means just what he said.

Andreas makes no compromises.
You have to understand that.

Andreas has more revolutionary drive
than all of us together.

That sounds pretty stoned.

You look exhausted.

I shot a film in a home for girls
where the girls are treated like shit.

I thought I could change
the girls' situation, but...

It's still the same old shit.

Except that Peggy ran away.

What we need is a new morality.

You have to draw a clear line
between yourself and your enemies.

Free yourself from the system
and burn all bridges behind you.

What about your son?
You can't see him anymore.

If you're serious,

you have to be able
to make such sacrifices.

Andreas has a little girl as well.

I could never leave my children.

Shit!

- Do you know how fast you were driving?
- No. Do you?

Your papers, please.

The car documents as well, please.

Sorry, officer, that... My friend
must have forgotten to put them back.

- You live in Rome, Mr. Hoger?
- Yes.

When were you born?

June 14th...

1939.

- You don't seem so sure.
- It was a long time ago.

- And?
- They took him to Moabit Prison.

We have to get him out.

Count rne in.

Me too.

Tying bed sheets together?

Just write about it afterwards.
That's all you're good for anyway.

Maybe Andreas should just
do his remaining 10 months.

Bullshit!

The liberation of prisoners is the focus
of the current political debate.

We have to show those bastards
what we do when they jail one of us.

We're getting Andy out of there!

NOW!

We can't get into the prison,
that's for sure.

I know a publisher...

I have a book contract with him.

MOABIT PRISON, BERLIN

- Good day.
- This is Ms. Weitemeyer.

She's an editor with the publisher
who's going to publish our book.

- Nice to meet you.
- The pleasure's mine.

Are you crazy?

Hey, it's just tear gas.
Looks real, doesn't it?

Where did you get it?

From Gudrun.
She got one for everybody.

And who's “everybody"?

That would be betrayal.

Then let rne tell you,
Gudrun, Astrid, Ingrid...

- I need an aspirin.
- ...Ulrike...

She's just the decoy.

You said you weren't
going along with this.

I want to know what's going on.

Mahler arranged for rne and Andreas

to work on a book
at the Social Research Institute.

- They're letting him out of jail?
- Under surveillance, of course.

That's where we come in.

At the Institute,
we stick our guns in the cops' faces,

and Baader is out the door.

And you?

What? I stay put
and pretend to be surprised.

She'll be back for lunch.

You're all women. What if the police
don't take you seriously?

Mahler recruited a real pro.

Mahler says he's already done
some hardcore shit.

I don't believe it.

The cops have real guns,
not junk like that.

This is crazy!

I have to do it.

Mr. Baader...

In the case of an attempted escape,
we'll be forced to use our weapons.

Don't you worry.

I saw you on TV recently.

- I hope it was interesting.
- Yes, very.

- Do you need anything else?
- Thanks, I'll be fine.

- Good day.
- Good day.

Sit down.

- Any chance of a coffee?
- Of course.

Are you married? Do you have kids?

Yes, wife and kids.

I think we should get started.
We now have...

I asked you yesterday
to come in the afternoon.

The reading room is occupied.

- Then we'll just wait here.
- It might take a while.

We have time.

Hey! What are you doing here?

Shit!

Hands up!

Against the wall!

Come on, Kitty!

Gudrun, help me!

Get down!

15 Years of "Konkret"

...in the Social Research Institute
in Berlin.

According to reports,

the kidnappers shot tear gas
through the institute's open door,

forced their way past staff

and freed Baader at gunpoint.

- One employee was critically injured.
- My God, the children!

FEDERAL BORDER

Come on, kids, run!

Quick, get in!

We say, the man in uniform is a pig,
not a human being.

That's how we have to deal with him.

This means we don't talk to him,

and it's wrong to talk
to these people at all.

And, of course, it's okay to shoot.

What we're doing,
and what we want to show,

is that armed struggle is possible,

and it's possible
to take action and win,

and the other side does not win.

So it's important
that they do not catch us.

That is essential to our success.

JORDAN, 1970

Mr. Fancy Lawyer!
Looking very Fidel Castro!

Welcome, Andreas.
Hi, Gudrun.

Where's your Havana cigar?

This is Achmed, the commander.

Men sleep in that building,

women over there.

What?

Those are the rules here.

You can stick them up your ass.
We're sleeping together. There!

- What's Ali Baba saying?
- Forget it. Come on.

Everybody get in there! Take any bed!
Into that building there!

Fucking shit!

Stop!

This has nothing to do with our job!
Nothing at all!

We're urban guerrillas, got it?
We don't have any fucking deserts!

Tell that camel driver what we're after
is bank jobs! Bank jobs!

Tell him that!

- What's so funny?
- We were admiring your pants.

They got a bit dirty.

I'll kill you, you cocksucker!

Baby, stop. He's one of us.

No, not him. He's only here because
he's scared of the cops in Germany.

Come on, Petra.

SICILY, ITALY

You want to go back, don't you?

- So you're giving up?
- These people are at war.

What's that got to do
with our situation in West Germany?

You think you can start a revolution
in Germany with a Kalashnikov?

West Germany is just one front.

We fight oppression and injustice
with our comrades around the world.

I thought you knew that.

Then why not start with your kids?

You've gone underground.
What's to become of them?

Soon they'll realize I had nothing to do
with Baader's escape.

Then I can return legitimately.

I could take care of the kids.

That sounds a lot like betrayal.

Betrayal? Of whom?

Take care of yourself.

Why? It should be fun!

- He won't give us any ammunition.
- Then we'll go on strike.

- What are they staring at?
- Probably never seen a naked woman.

Look who's here.

What happens to traitors?

People's Court.

What did he say?

He wants us to put on some clothes.

Repressive bullshit!

Sexual revolution and anti-imperialism
go together, understand?

He doesn't understand you, baby.

Fucking and shooting are the same!

Abu Hassan is the camp commander.

He wants to give you the chance
to hear what your people are saying.

And what they're saying about you.

He wants to help us
get back to Germany.

What about weapons, logistics?
Translate that.

Right now I don't think he'll help.
Maybe later.

Asshole.

Don't worry, we'll get you out of here.

WEST BERLIN, GERMANY

- Hands up! Robbery!
- This is a robbery! Hands up!

- Nobody move!
- That's not your money!

Down!

This is a robbery!
Hands up! Get away from the window!

- All the bills go in here!
- Move! Against the wall!

This is a robbery!

In West Berlin, three banks
were robbed within 10 minutes today.

Three masked men and a woman
entered a bank on Breitenbachplatz

armed with a sawed-off shotgun
and a machine pistol.

Four men entered the bank at 08:10.
They were wearing parkas...

The robbers escaped
with over 200,000 Marks...

They suspect that the perpetrators

who carried out
the three bank robberies

belong to left-wing
extremist militant groups.

Police later found a bag containing
masks made from woolen hats.

They left a leaflet that said,
"Expropriate the enemies of the people."

217,449 Marks and 50 Pfennigs.

Not bad for 10 minutes' work.

Ulrike should write a statement.

To make it clear
that this is the money of capitalists.

That the average Joe is unaffected.

Okay, write some bullshit like that.
The liberal jerk-offs love that shit.

Silly bitch! Can't you be more careful?
Shit-for-brains!

And you want to be part
of the revolution?

Some say bank robbery isn't political.

Urban guerrillas in Latin America
call it expropriation.

This time the robbers
used extreme brutality.

Confronted by a guard,
they opened fire...

Expropriation is strategically crucial
because it finances the guerrillas.

- Your kids are gone.
- What?

I just called Sicily.

The guy who picked them up
even knew the code word.

They're probably
with your ex-husband, that Fascist.

Unknown assailants broke into City Hall,
stealing passports, ID cards, stamps...

I think that the Baader-Meinhof Group
fights for its revolutionary ideas.

Other groups just talk.

Suspects stole a car,
license plate number MA-KA...

Report all suspicious activity
to the police.

...were arrested: The lawyer
Horst Mahler, student Peggy Schoenau...

The police found a Belgian pistol
in the young lady's handbag.

The charges were: illegal weapons,
faked papers, car theft,

aiding an escape, burglary, robbery,

attempted murder
within a criminal organization.

Robberies in Mülheim, Dortmund and
Constance point to the same suspects...

Your ID!

...ammunition for various
pistols was found: 9mm, 7.65mm...

Caution: Suspects are armed.

...wanted for attempted murder
of police officers, bank robberies,

and for counterfeiting passports.

...the second was uninjured.
But both were arrested.

...a 10,000 Mark reward
for their arrest!

Would you hide a Baader-Meinhof member
from the police?

- That's a tough question.
- Yes, I would.

It's too early to say how often
these guns were used. That...

- GERMANY'S MOST WANTED
-...search together with all newspapers.

The trial of Astrid Berger
began yesterday.

Many observers chanted
their support for her.

According to a poll
by the Allensbach Institute,

one in four Germans under 30
sympathizes with the RAF.

That's nearly 7 million people.

That amounts to an enormous
pool of sympathizers,

which makes the search
for perpetrators extremely difficult.

Lobster soup.

This is a proposal
for electronic data processing.

I'll use an example
to explain what I'm talking about.

The terrorists living underground
aren't registered with the authorities,

such as
the resident registration office,

so they can't set up a bank account.

They pay their rent in cash.

Aren't you hungry?

They pay everything in cash:
heating, water, electricity bills.

In Frankfurt alone, 16,000 customers
pay their electricity bill in cash.

We can disregard anyone
who's registered as a resident

or with a health insurance company.

And then?

Then we compare more data and delete
everybody with a registered car,

or people receiving child support.

The grid zooms in on people.

In the end,
only two or three suspects remain.

It's a mathematical certainty.

In the long run, however,
it's pointless to bash heads

or, as some are calling for,
to chop off heads.

Not the police,

but those in political power
must change the conditions

that lead to the rise of terrorism.

At least that's what I think.

And give my regards to the Minister.

Shit!

Step on it!

- Stop!
- They're fleeing!

Stop right there!

Hands up! You too!

Get out of here! Petra, run!

Drop your weapon!

Kiss my ass!

- Stop! Don't move!
- Don't be stupid! Hands up!

Change the channel.
Go to channel 1.

Hi, Werner.
You can't go in there now.

Excuse rne, this is my apartment.

You said for one night.

Relax. We'll be gone tomorrow.

Okay, tomorrow.

...two occupants, male and female.
The car was hot-wired...

What's going on?

...a stolen car. Both immediately...

That's Petra's car.

...opened fire on the police.

The woman, after a shoot-out
with the police, which she initiated,

and after ignoring calls by police
to lay down her weapon and cease fire,

was fatally wounded.

Shit!

This means war.

Pigs! They'll pay for this!

Shot in cold blood!
They have orders to shoot, for sure.

They are systematically hunting us down.

We have to attack the cops head-on.

Blow up police helicopters,
fire on headquarters!

Something!

That contradicts our main policy.

Fuck the main policy!

The armed struggle against imperialism.

In other words,
against U.S. military presence

in West Germany and West Berlin.

Soon more of us will be in jail
than free.

We have to plan more carefully.

Which means?

We need more precautions.

We can't start an operation in a city
without first knowing the territory.

That's what killed Petra.

The setbacks were down to individuals,
not the overall planning.

If there's no result,
mistakes were made.

Of course, mistakes were made,
but by individuals, not by the group.

So individuals have to change,
not the group!

All this mindless scrambling.

If it doesn't work here,
we try the next city.

We never ask why it doesn't work!

You cunts! Your emancipation!
It's only about screaming at men!

Baby, you don't know that.

General Daniel Chase, division leader
at the Pentagon, declared in Washington

that U.S. Air Force bombing raids
will from now on

spare no target north or south
of the 17th Parallel.

The deployment of chemicals
for deforestation...

For those responsible
for the Vietnam genocide,

West Germany and West Berlin
shall no longer be safe havens.

FRANKFURT
HQ 5TH MARINE CORPS.

They need to know that their crimes
against the Vietnamese people

have created new, bitter enemies.

HEIDELBERG
U.S. ARMY HQ EUROPE

That for them
there will be no place in the world

where they can feel safe
from revolutionary guerilla units.

At 6:10 pm,
at intervals of 10 minutes...

We demand a stop
of the bombing in Vietnam.

We demand the withdrawal
of American troops from Indochina.

We demand the lifting of the mine
blockade against North Vietnam.

...one soldier
and two women were injured.

AUGSBURG
POLICE DEPARTMENT

...got a life sentence
for allegedly shooting

the police officer Herbert Schoner.

...hit by at least three bullets.

One entered his chest,
the other hit the aorta in his thigh.

We now know that the other injured man,
the other shooter,

is Manfred Fichtner, 25, of Kiel...

...Fichtner is guilty, stated the court.

He shot police officer Heinz Eckhardt
as he was arrested on March 3, 1972...

We will continue to carry out
bombings against judges and prosecutors

until they cease violating
the rights of political prisoners.

Our demands on the justice system
are not unreasonable.

We have no other means
to force them to comply.

Commando: Petra Schelm.

Today a bomb attack was carried out
against police headquarters in Augsburg.

Five officers were critically injured.

A few hours later,
there was a further attack in Munich.

Experts will analyze
the materials used in the bomb.

Karlsruhe district attorney's office
offered a 10,000 Mark reward.

The car is currently being analyzed
by federal agents in Wiesbaden.

Explosives experts, chemists
and criminal forensics experts...

At 12:29, a bomb
on Klosestrasse destroyed the car

of federal judge Wolfgang Buddenberg
when his wife started the car...

Buddenberg was involved in investigating
the Baader-Meinhof Group.

His wife regularly drove him to work.

She was hospitalized and is in shock,
but her life is not in danger.

Shit! We need more grinders!

What's the situation now in Stuttgart?
The bomb threat was made for 14:00.

Check points on all exit roads,
at all entry points to the city,

machine pistols
and armed guards are everywhere.

By yesterday morning, the police...

Axel Springer Publishers.

A bomb will go off in five minutes.
Evacuate the building immediately!

- Who are you, anyway?
- Is it that crazy guy again?

- Please stop these calls.
- You fucking bastards!

We demand that Springer
stop the newspaper from continuing

the smear campaign against
the Third World liberation movement,

especially against the Arab peoples
fighting to liberate Palestine.

We will only cease operations
against the enemies of the people

when our demands have been met.

Chancellor Brandt declared

the Federal Government's
utmost condemnation for the attacks.

Such cowardly attacks on human life...

Springer decided to risk the lives

of his workers and employees
in the bombing,

rather than give up a few hours of work,
that is, profit, for a false alarm.

For capitalism, profit is everything.

The people who generate profit are scum.

We are deeply saddened that workers
and employees were injured.

Five bombs were planted,
of which two exploded.

What do you suggest?

You can imagine the pressure
on the government.

- We'll slap the water.
- Pardon rne?

When you slap the water,
the fish start to move.

I need the entire police force,

federal police, national guard,
coast guard, from across the country.

For one day, under federal command.

That would be at least 130,000 men.

Approximately.

I also need all available helicopters

from the country's entire
public sector in the air.

And we'll shut down the borders.

On one single day,
we'll shake down all of West Germany.

That will disturb our fishes
and drive them into our nets.

Across the country,

police are checking cars
on highways and major roads.

The scene at the borders is the same.
The measures caused significant delays.

All the country's available officers
have been deployed.

Already by noon today,
police in the Hamburg region

had checked 15,000 cars.

This is the police state
you always talked about.

Most citizens greeted the measures

with tolerance and, indeed, support.

I DON'T BELONG
TO THE BAADER-MEINHOF GROUP

Doesn't look like the revolution
is about to happen.

Shut up!

Urban guerillas operate in the rift
between the state and the masses!

...in countless cities, in buildings,
stadiums and airports,

people and cars were searched.

Wanted posters
of suspected RAF members...

Mao Tse-tung once said,
and you all know the text,

but I'll remind you of it today...

He said,

"if the enemy fights you, that is good.

For it is proof
that between us and the enemy

a clear dividing line exists.

If the enemy confronts us forcefully

and paints us in the blackest of colors,
then even better.

It shows
that we have not only drawn a line

between us and the enemy,

but also that our work
has led to magnificent success."

- The bucket.
- What about it?

Someone moved it.

That's not my material.

Stop right there!

Police!

- Stop! Drop your weapon!
- Get down!

Stop! Police! Drop your weapon!

Drop your weapon!

Shit!

Throw your guns into the courtyard
and come out.

The longer you wait,
the more reinforcements we will have.

You are outnumbered
and don't stand a chance.

Come out before it's too late.

Surrender at once!

Come on out!
You don't stand a chance!

You've played your last card!
Your situation is hopeless!

What are you doing?
How will you get out of this situation?

You don't stand a chance.

The only chance you have
is to stay alive.

And you have this chance...

Put your hands up
and come out one by one.

Nothing will happen to you.

We can sit this out.
We have the advantage.

Our tactical situation is far better.

In their search for members
of the Baader-Meinhof Group,

police units made a breakthrough
in Frankfurt early this morning.

Among those arrested were
Andreas Baader and Holger Meins,

who is also considered part
of the group's inner circle.

Shit.

Okay, you big terrorist, now fire away!

That's for Norbert!

That's for Heinz!

- Can I try that on?
- Sure. There are the changing rooms.

This way. The gun is in here.

No! You fucking pigs!

Oh, no! No! Let go!

No! No! Oh, no!

Is that you?

Are you Ulrike Meinhof?

WITTLICH PRISON

COLOGNE PRISON

ESSEN PRISON

SCHWALMSTADT PRISON

COLOGNE PRISON

- Ulrike!
- Quiet!

- Ulrike!
- Quiet!

Ulrike! Ulrike!

Astrid!

Ulrike! Ulrike!

Here I am! Astrid, here I am!

Astrid!

Ulrike!

- Astrid!
- Ulrike!

Astrid!

The Interior Minister congratulates you
on your spectacular success.

The Interior Minister now considers
the RAF chapter closed.

I now declare...

MUNICH
AUGUST, 1972

...the 1972 Olympic Games...

...to be open!

The sparrow from Minsk,
pursued by misfortune and luck.

World record!
World record for Germany!

...disguised as guards or rubbish men,

climbed the fence and entered
the dormitory of the Israeli team.

There they shot Israeli coach
Moshe Weinberg twice in the head.

...the commando calling itself
Black September,

gave the Interior Minister
a list with the names

of more than 230 imprisoned Palestinians
they want released.

The hostages are supposedly safe.

This has been revoked.

...once it's clear
that the prisoners won't be released...

FÜRSTENFELDBRUCK
MILITARY AIRPORT

Our worst fears have now
become bitter reality.

They're all dead.

Without last week's tragedy,

the Munich Olympics
would have been what we all hoped for --

a joyful event
that would be remembered as such.

We cannot drop out of this world

in which there is so much hate
and violence.

Instead, we must confront these dangers,
while refusing to sacrifice...

Gentlemen...

...the government has commissioned us
to fight terrorism in this country

and to put an end to it if possible.

Who has something to say?

We need a special unit

that is trained to eliminate
these lunatics in the future.

Your choice of words is no less brutal
than the terrorists' acts.

I think the formation of such
a special unit is necessary,

but that alone won't solve the problem.

- The roots go deeper.
- How's that?

The Palestinians want land back
from Israel. Nobody's listening.

So they try to get attention
through terrorist activities.

So you approve of the terrorists' acts?

Nadler, cut the bullshit!

By no means do I approve of terrorism.

But I want us to understand
their motives the best we can.

So you want to grant these murderers
special status?

No! But our response cannot be so rigid!

It's in part our ignorance
which promotes terrorism.

In other words,

the question is whether terrorism
represents a new form of warfare.

Whether it replaces the big war
which is currently not taking place.

I'm sorry, I don't follow you.

And I doubt that the victims
or their families can either.

I understand your bitterness very well.

But we, whose job it is
to fight terrorism,

have to acknowledge
that the problems of the Third World,

the conflict in the Middle East,
the Americans' war in Vietnam,

that these problems exist objectively.

7 MONTHS LATER

The feeling that your head is exploding.

The feeling that the cell is moving.

You can't get it to stop moving.

Raging aggression,
for which there is no outlet.

That's the worst thing
about solitary confinement:

the clear awareness
that you have no chance of survival.

Starting today,
we are on a hunger strike.

We demand
improved prison conditions.

That means political prisoners must
be treated like all other prisoners.

This hunger strike
is our only possibility

of unified resistance
in solitary confinement.

Our hunger strike must be carried out
with the result

that the prisoners
are incapable of standing trial.

The prison system must explode.

See you tomorrow.

The goals must be formulated
in such a way

that any old Joe who shot his old lady
can identify with them.

This means that people will die.

We can say that every three weeks,
or whatever,

every second or fourth,
one of us will die.

Until solitary confinement,

exterminatory imprisonment,
is lifted for all.

Hunger strike only becomes a weapon
when it's clear

that it will be continued until
the collective demands are fulfilled.

Even if there are casualties.

BAN EXTERMINATORY IMPRISONMENT

Only for a few minutes, please.
Prisoner Meins is very weak.

Gudrun wrote this to rne.

That is the goal.
You decide when you die.

Freedom or death.

If I should pass from life to death,

it was murder,

no matter what the pigs will say.

Don't believe the lies of the murderers.

Give rne a cigarette.

Of course I don't know
what it's like to die.

Or to be killed.

How could I?

That was it.

On the right side, anyway.

The situation is clear.

Fighting against the pigs,

as a human,
for the liberation of humans,

a revolutionary at war,

despite all love of life,

defying death.

That's my way of serving the people.

- You have to call the prison doctor.
- Sorry, he's off for the weekend.

- Then get his replacement.
- We don't have a replacement.

- Then get a doctor from the outside!
- We're not authorized to do that.

He's dying! You can see that!

- You have to do something!
- I'm sorry.

Nothing we can do.

November 10, 1974, Berlin.

One day after the death
of Baader-Meinhof member Holger Meins

as a result of a hunger strike,

the president of Berlin's High Court,
Von Drenkmann, was shot at his home.

We won't shed a tear
for the dead Drenkmann.

We celebrate his execution.

...attacks on judges and attorneys
involved in cases against members

of the anarchist scene.

The lawyers of Holger Meins
filed charges for murder.

The operation was necessary
to show every lawyer and cop pig

that he too can be held responsible
at any time.

HOLGER MEINS,
THE PEOPLE WILL AVENGE YOU!

A COMRADE IS DEAD

It's Dutschke.

It's him.

Holger, the fight goes on!

In Stammheim Prison, in four weeks,

the trial of key members of the
Baader-Meinhof group will take place.

These are images of the 7th-floor
maximum security wing.

The prisoners were put together
in a mixed group.

That means that men and women
are together!

- Indeed. Those were their demands.
- Unbelievable!

We assume they'll cooperate
in the trial.

Then we're basically
hosting a terrorist headquarters.

For the Attorney General,
a smooth trial is the highest priority.

We, the Federal BKA agents...

...can only monitor the group's
internal communication.

And we should be very thorough.

Thanks.

STOCKHOLM
GERMAN EMBASSY, 1975

Go, go, go!

- Out! Out! Everybody out!
- Down!

- Out!
- Out, you bastards!

Go! Get out! Bastards!

- Out!
"GO, 90. go!

- Move!
- Get down!

Open up!

Give rne that!

Go!

Go! Get out!

- Move it! Get out!
- Go! Get out! Faster!

- Faster!
- Get out, you bastards! Out!

Faster! Out! Out!

Go!

- Out!
"out! Out!

Get down!

Go! Out!

STUTTGART
STAMMHEIM PRISON

We have just received word...

MAXIMUM SECURITY UNIT
7TH FLOOR

...that in the German Embassy
in Stockholm

a shooting took place this afternoon.

There are reports of one fatality.

Witnesses report hearing shots.
The police cordoned off the area.

No information on casualties.

Some 100 people are in the embassy.

The police have arrived in force.
The fire department...

In Stockholm, a male caller
claiming to be a RAF member demanded...

Authorities assume that the attack
is a final attempt

to free the prisoners in Stammheim
before the trial.

- No fire in the cell!
- Kiss my ass!

- We'll be gone tomorrow anyway.
- Tell me your decision.

Each hour we will shoot
one embassy employee.

If the building is stormed,
we'll blow it up.

We won't leave
until our demands are met.

Tell him to pull back, or I'll shoot!
Translate that.

- He's not allowed to pull back.
- Then we'll have to act. Translate.

Translate it!

My name's Von Mirbach. I'll be shot
if the police don't pull back.

Get out of here! Now! Get out!

Just before midnight, the first
explosion occurred in the embassy.

The wing of the building
that the terrorists had occupied

went up in flames.

More explosions rapidly followed.

When the police stormed the building,
shots were fired.

The hostage drama that ended last night
in a chaos of explosions and shootings

claimed three lives.

Two of the dead are embassy staff.

One of them is thought to be
Heinz Hillegaart,

head of the Finance Department.

It's not clear if he was shot,
like military attaché Von Mirbach,

or if he died in the explosions.

The third fatality is a terrorist.
Five terrorists were arrested.

Their names are Siegfried Hausner,
Bernhard Rössner, Karl-Heinz Dellwo,

Lutz Taufer and Hanna Krabbe.

What a fucked-up operation!

Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher
arrived in Stockholm this morning.

After two hours of discussion,
the Swedish government agreed

to hand over the terrorists
to the German government.

The first to be flown to Stammheim
is the critically injured Hausner.

I think it's irresponsible!

If he dies, he'll be the second man
after Meins to die in custody.

Blunders like that help RAF terrorists
gain immortality!

This is a prison!
We're not equipped for such injuries.

We have to keep him here for now.
Orders!

That's completely crazy!

1st DAY OF TRIAL

Mr. Baader is adequately defended
with the two attorneys assigned to him.

If he doesn't want them,
that's his choice.

Those attorneys aren't defending rne.
They never talked to rne and never will.

And by the way.

Someone wrote "chop off his head"
on my microphone!

What about a head?

I said, someone wrote "chop off
his head" next to my microphone.

What do you say to that, huh?

That's too obscure for rne.

I declare myself
incapable of standing trial.

I'm basically unable to speak

at the moment when I have to
or want to say something.

I therefore request medical
examinations for all of us

by an independent doctor.

The request is denied.

The argument keeps being made

that we're not in solitary confinement
because we have larger cells.

I'll repeat it one more time:

we have been, for most of the past
three years, in complete isolation.

Mr. Baader...

Whenever we talked
through the tiny slot in the door...

Mr. Baader!

...even one or two sentences,
someone stood there taking notes!

You no longer have the floor!

Yes, thanks.

Why are you changing my texts
without consulting rne?

Because the stuff you write sounds
downtrodden and depressing.

I don't understand
why you're doing this.

You swoop on every mistake I make!
I can't take it!

Your cowardly backstabbing
is driving rne up the wall!

Guard!

You wait!
I'm so sick of your bouts of exhaustion!

I'm so fed up with them!

- Guard!
- You want rne to snap!

- That's not true!
- You can talk to Andy about that.

- And I will!
- Then go for it!

I really don't understand it.

I don't see what those cunts
are so caught up with.

It kills them that Hausner
was just left to die.

That was totally screwed.

You're starting a bitches' revolution!

We have to get out of here.

It'll be hard to find new people
after Stockholm.

You're so egotistical!
Get your fucking emotions sorted out!

You have no clue! No fucking clue!

Get the fuck out of here, assholes!

Get lost, or get us out of here!

Get us out! Asshole! Bastard!

39th DAY OF TRIAL

Mrs. Meinhof...

Mrs. Meinhof,
you're required to stay here.

I won't be forced, you asshole!

Mrs. Meinhof, for the record,
you just addressed rne as "you asshole."

Yeah, why don't you acknowledge that?

The accused is barred
from today's proceedings

for calling the presiding judge
an "asshole."

Then bar rne, as well.

Mr. Baader,
it's not a question of what you want!

Well, what do you want?
Do you want it to come to blows?

You are to sit down and participate!

Then go on with your stupid circus.
I'll just go on disrupting things.

- Mr. Baader!
- Do you really want to hear it?

- No.
- You can hear it!

No, I don't want to hear it!

Well, you can hear it from rne,
you are a Fascist asshole!

We're not able to defend ourselves.
As a result, we won't participate.

You old swine.

You caused a disturbance!
You caused a disturbance!

So, for the record,
you called rne an "old swine."

Did I hear correctly, or am I mistaken?

I want this on record!

And you, Mr. Baader,
you called rne a "Fascist asshole."

Dirty rat.

The accused are barred
from the proceedings.

The bench will retire for consultation.

FEBRUARY, 1976

You want to know about Ulrike?
It's sinister.

A vampire, trembling with bloodlust.

Ulrike's two laughs during work
were necrophilia, hysterical,

absolutely ugly,
and clearly directed against me.

Although I still say
it's directed less against me

than against you.

It's crap.

You're giving rne false information,
or Gudrun completely rewrites my stuff.

Why do you do that?

- To torment rne?
- To pay back your tormenting.

An eye for an eye.

I don't get it, or I don't want to,
but I can't take it anymore.

I'm no witch,
but I've learned to be brutal.

Don't kid yourself.
You hate us, that much is clear.

So just shut your mouth until
you've changed something, or go to hell.

Andreas, please.

How can we communicate our goals
if you bomb workers?

Just look at the coverage.

I know the Springer bombing was wrong.

It was not a mistake.
It was contrary to our main policy!

I've discussed this a thousand times!

We called there, numerous times!

- It was counter-revolutionary!
- Stop it already!

The Tupamaros would've
shot you for that.

The question is, how can a prisoner
in solitary confinement

show the judicial authorities
that his behavior has changed?

How?

In solitary confinement, if a prisoner
wants to show he's changed,

he has only one possibility,
and that is betrayal.

There is no other possibility
for a prisoner in solitary confinement.

There are exactly two possibilities.
Either...

- Mrs. Meinhof!
- I want to finish!

Either you silence a prisoner,
meaning death,

or you get him to talk,
meaning a confession,

and betrayal.

And based on the reality
of this situation,

the Supreme Court stated clearly

that torture -- explicitly, torture --
is employed,

defined by the goal
of extorting confessions,

creating insecurity or confusion
among prisoners, or punishing them.

You're the knife in the RAF's back.

Because you learn nothing.

It's not mystical when I say
I can't take it anymore.

What I can't take anymore is...

...not being able to defend myself.

We are responsible for the attacks

on the CIA headquarters
of the 5th U.S.-Corps in Frankfurt/Main

and on the U.S. headquarters
in Heidelberg.

We are certainly also responsible
for operations by commandos,

for example, the attack
on the Springer building,

of which we knew nothing,

and their conceptions,
which we did not approve

and which we had rejected in that form.

Anarchist Ulrike Meinhof,
defendant in the Baader-Meinhof trial,

has taken her own life.

She was found dead in her cell
in Stammheim Prison this morning.

Ulrike Meinhof, it was murder!

Authorities report
that the 41-year old hanged herself

from her window bars
using a strip of towel.

The body was taken for an autopsy.

Day 109 of the trial
in Stuttgart-Stammheim

commenced with unusually
high public interest.

All seats were taken.

To start off,
the attorneys filed a request

to suspend the trial for 10 days.

And it has yet to be determined

whether Meinhof really committed
suicide, as authorities claim.

We believe that Ulrike was executed.

We don't know how, but we know by whom.

Silence!

Remember what
Attorney General Buback said:

"State security thrives
on the commitment of people like me.

- Herold and I will always find a way."
- The court rejects such defamation.

It was a cold-blooded execution,
just like Holger was executed,

like Siegfried Hausner was executed,
and now Ulrike's execution!

- Fascists! Murderers!
- Silence!

You are a judge under whose leadership
two out of five prisoners were killed!

- Get him!
- Throw him out!

- Murderer!
- Get that pig!

But why have Schubert, Möller and now
Mohnhaupt been moved to Stammheim?

The Public Prosecutor's Office
caved in to public pressure.

They've commissioned a study
to prevent further suicides.

Baader and Ensslin were allowed

to have RAF prisoners transferred
from other prisons to Stammheim.

- Time's up, back to your cells!
- Shut up!

Mohnhaupt will get out in seven months.
She's sure to go underground.

That's probably why Baader and Ensslin
insisted on her coming.

SPRING, 1977

Nice to see you.

You're Charlie?

I want to talk to him alone.

- Andreas and Gudrun trust you.
- How are they doing?

Terribly.

We have to get them out, soon.

Or they'll end up
like Ulrike and Holger.

A few guys from our group
think we can hijack a 747.

It'll circle over Bonn
with an ultimatum

to exchange our people
within six to eight hours.

Then it'll run out of gas and crash...
in the middle of Bonn.

We heard about the plan.

No attacks against the people.
Absolutely not.

We'll concentrate
on the two kidnappings.

How far along are you?

Everything's checked out. It's a go.

Here, before I forget...

I brought you something.

Nearly five years in jail...

It's a long time.

That's how long I haven't fucked a man.

The Stammheimers need weapons.

If another breakout attempt fails,
then...

At least they want to be able
to determine their own situation.

You mustn't talk to the others
about this, no matter what happens.

- Very nice, the medal.
- Very.

Congratulations.

You're working on your day of honor?

Gottfried Hagemann...
You remember, the lawyer.

Upon his arrest, we found
encoded strategic papers,

detailing planned operations.

"Big Money!'

“Big Get-Them-Out."

“Check out H.M."

"Margarine..."

- What does that tell you?
- Siegfried...

We've been expecting a revenge attack
for some time now.

On April 7, 1977,

the Commando Ulrike Meinhof executed
Attorney General Siegfried Buback.

Buback was directly responsible
for the murder of Holger Meins,

Siegfried Hausner and Ulrike Meinhof.

In his function as Attorney General,
he planned and ordered their murders.

Under Buback's direction,
Holger was murdered on Nov. 9th, 1974

through systematic malnutrition.

Under Buback's direction,
Ulrike, on May 9th, 1976,

was executed
by the state-security apparatus.

Ulrike's death was staged as a suicide

in order to portray
her political cause as pointless.

We will prevent our fighters
in West German prisons

from being murdered because
the Attorney General can't stop...

...the prisoners from fighting.

"...other than by liquidating them.

Commando Ulrike Meinhof."

We couldn't protect him.

I ask myself why new terrorist units
keep emerging out there.

What motivates them?

A myth.

Come in.
Mr. Ponto is expecting you.

This way.

- This is a proper committee.
- I wanted to stop by.

- Friends of mine. Klara...
- Good afternoon.

- Gerd...
- Hello.

- Is there anything else, Mr. Ponto?
- No, go on.

Come outside.

Hold on.

What a nice surprise!

Let rne just finish my conversation.

- Let's find a vase for those.
- Yes.

Have a seat.

Of course.

- Move! To the door. Come with rne.
- You must be mad!

- You're a prisoner of the RAF.
- You must be mad!

Come on! Out!

That's not what I wanted!

How will I explain this to my parents?

We said no guns!
Only knock him out if he fights back!

We only wanted to kidnap him,
and now he's dead!

Why are you even here?

To play female Robin Hood
without getting your hands dirty?

- Stop bawling and sign the confession.
- No, I won't!

As for Ponto and his shooting, we say:

'We never fully realized that these guys
who start wars around the world

and exterminate people,

when faced with violence
in their own homes, are dumbfounded.

Susanne Albrecht,
member of an RAF commando."

- Leave it open!
- The door stays open!

We won't accept closed doors!
Hey! No closed doors!

Now you have the war you wanted!

- You bastards!
- Dirty pigs!

Fucking cops!

Cocksuckers! Go to hell!

You swine! Let go! Bastards!

Asshole!

- How much longer?
- I'm almost done. I almost have it.

229,
12th line, 4th word, 9, 10, 11, 12...

3, 4...

“to say...“

Finished.

We will beat them to their plan
to liquidate us.

We want to, and we will,
preserve our identity.

"We know there is a concrete plan
to kill us.

Capitulation is unacceptable.

You will have to hurry.

That's all we have to say."

The message is clear.

If we don't act,
they will create a fait accompli.

- What do you mean, "fait accompli"?
- It's quite clear, isn't it?

If we don't get them out now,
they're dead.

So...

In two days,
Schleyer's going on holiday.

- For how long?
- Several weeks.

- Then we have to do it tomorrow.
- Tomorrow?

- Why not? It's time to play hard-ball.
- What do you mean, "hard-ball"?

She means we have to shoot Schleyer's
entourage in order to get to him.

The Special Unit escorts
are trained and armed.

They are combatants.

But not Schleyer's driver.
He's not even armed.

You lousy prick, did you forget
that our people will be killed?

Enough!

- Let's put it to a vote.
- I can't be part of it.

There has to be another way.

Okay. Then you leave,
and we'll discuss it.

It doesn't involve you anymore.

Brigitte, you stay out
of this operation.

- If it goes wrong, we need a leader.
- We'll discuss that later.

Now let's vote on whether
we should play hard-ball.

What about you?

It's almost certain
that Schleyer's kidnappers

are hiding out within 20 kilometers
of the scene of the crime.

It took place approximately one
and a half hours ago. Four people died.

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.

Five weeks after the murder
of the banker Ponto,

an attack was carried out today
on Hanns-Martin Schleyer in Cologne.

Four police officers belonging
to his escort unit were killed.

A search is on for the culprits.

He is not among those killed,
so we assume he has been kidnapped.

...according
to the head of operations here,

he was not killed,
but kidnapped by the terrorists.

...is not known at the moment.
The manhunt is ongoing.

All parties in the Bundestag

have condemned the Schleyer attack
and the murders...

Now you have a problem.
Now you have a fucking problem!

...the officers and men

who lost their lives in the defense
of our constitutional rights.

I hope that the general public
can acknowledge

that there can be no latent support...

INTERIOR MINISTER HIRSCH

...for such brutal murderers.

We will do everything...

One hour ago, Chancellor Schmidt
gave a public address.

Four dead citizens of our state
are added to the list of victims

of frenzied terrorists
who, as we suspected all along,

have not yet expended
all of their criminal energy.

At this moment, they might feel
a triumphant sense of power.

But they should not be mistaken...

On Monday, September 5th, 1977,
the Commando Siegfried Hausner

captured the President
of the Employers' Association,

Hanns-Martin Schleyer.

The entire population
stands united against terrorism.

The kidnappers demand
the release of 10 prisoners,

all members of the RAF,
including Baader and Ensslin,

as well as...

- Andy, what's going on out there?
- What are you doing?

Andreas!

Baby! Baby! What...?
What are you doing?

What's going on, Andy?

What are you doing? Andreas!

BAGHDAD, IRAQ
OCTOBER, 1977

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.

Tonight, hijackers have taken control
of a Lufthansa passenger jet.

The flight was on its way
from Palma de Majorca to Frankfurt.

There are 86 passengers on board,
most of them on holiday.

...calling himself Martyr Mohammed,
said, "The group I represent--"

This act is meant to drive home
the demands of Schleyer's kidnappers.

Two hours after landing,
the hijacked plane took off for Cyprus.

In my current situation,
I really have to ask myself

what else has to happen
before Bonn finally makes a decision.

By now, I've been in the custody
of the terrorists for over five weeks.

And all this simply because for years
I've served this country

and its free and democratic system.

Sometimes the remarks I hear,
including those from politicians,

seem to make a mockery of my work.

We realize we are facing
a very serious ultimatum.

This determines everything--

...release of political prisoners,
in particular the RAF members--

The terrorists surprisingly set
another ultimatum.

By 9:00 o'clock...

They stated
that when the deadline passes,

they will shoot three passengers
and crew...

...and every five minutes another...

Pope Paul VI is offering himself

in exchange for the release
of the remaining 86 hostages.

An exchange of the prisoners
for passengers and crew of the plane

is to take place at Aden Airport.

The ambassador in Cairo declared

that his country is not willing
to allow terrorists to land.

An emergency landing is in progress.

ADEN AIRPORT
DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF YEMEN

After a dramatic emergency landing,
government troops surround the plane.

...whether there is even
one Arab country willing

to accept the RAF terrorists
in exchange for the lives of Schleyer

and passengers and crew
of the Lufthansa plane in Dubai.

Very few Arab states support
the actions of international...

Why does South Yemen
reject our comrades?

The ultimatum which expires tomorrow...

What's going on?

It's all going wrong!

Everything!

...has been shot by the terrorists.

The plane has left Aden.

The commando shot the pilot.

The exchange was supposed
to have taken place in Aden.

What do we do now?

Baby, this is getting
totally out of hand.

...yesterday in the Somali capital.
The Boeing is parked on the tarmac.

SOMALIA

The body of Captain Schumann
was sent down an emergency slide.

The Somali government

wants the plane to get airborne
as soon as possible.

In your discussion with the manager
it was not confirmed that,

should this not happen,
the plane will be blown up.

It's actually too late for this talk.

The chance to influence events
has passed.

We, the prisoners,

would never have approved of acts
against innocent civilians.

The Federal Government...

The government has to realize

that the second and third generations
of the RAF will increase the brutality.

I'd prefer to talk
to the prison chaplain.

Yes.

Compared to what's happening now,
our policies were rather moderate.

Are you serious?
After eight deaths in recent months?

The operations out there...

...have been undertaken
by the second and third generations.

We don't even know the kidnappers
of Schleyer personally.

I have a request.

In my cell,
in a folder labeled "lawyer",

there are three loose,
hand-written pages.

They're meant for the head
of the Federal Chancellery,

once I'm liquidated or executed.

But Mrs. Ensslin --

I'm afraid that otherwise these
documents will be seized or destroyed.

Do you really think that someone
wants to liquidate or execute you?

Not someone from this place.
It will come from the outside.

If we don't get out of here,
terrible things will happen.

The armed struggle
has become international.

What do you mean?

The question is: Which states profit
from the escalation of violence?

Maybe some states even hope for it.

The power relations between
the U.S. and Western industrial states

cause the masses
to be dependent and oppressed.

They will inevitably lead to a new
terrible and violent escalation.

What influence
do you still have on the situation?

Released prisoners are,
compared to dead prisoners,

the lesser evil
for the Federal Government.

Tell the Secretary of State,

if he still wants to talk to rne,
he might have to travel a long way.

Mrs. Ensslin, I hope
we'll be able to continue this talk.

Theologians hope...

12:38 a.m. This is Deutschlandfunk
with an important broadcast.

The 86 hostages on the Lufthansa plane
hijacked by terrorists

have all been released.

This was just confirmed by a spokesman
of the Interior Ministry in Bonn.

At 12:00 midnight, a special unit
of the Federal Border Guard

began the operation
at Mogadishu Airport.

Relief after a long night in Bonn.
Government spokesman Boiling...

if the Federal Republic of Germany
had released the 11 terrorists,

they would've all returned
to commit new and terrible murders.

...the only surviving terrorist
is being carried through the terminal.

Despite her wounds,
she gives a victory sign and shouts:

"The Arab cause will triumph!"

- Morning.
- Morning.

Mr. Raspe...

Mrs. Möller! Mrs. Möller!

She's still alive!

Mrs. Ensslin?

Those bastards went and did it!

They seized the chance
to kill them all!

Stop it!

- But they did kill them!
- They killed them, that's clear!

They aren't victims,
and they never were.

What? What's that supposed to mean?

You said yourself
that their lives were in danger.

And that we have to get them out!
Immediately! Those were your words!

They determined their own situation
until the very end.

That means that they did this,
and not that it was done to them.

And Ulrike?

Her too.

You never knew them.

Stop seeing them as they never were.

BELGIAN-FRENCH BORDER