10 years after its demise, the Red Army Faction still causes controversy
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Some movies, such as Schindler's List or 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days manage to gain acclaim from both sides of the story they cover. Others, such as The Baader Meinhof Komplex, attract criticism from both the antiheroes' and their victims' offspring.
The Red Army Faction was a self-described communist "urban guerilla" involved in numerous crimes and assassinations between 1970 and 1998. It even caused the German Autumn of 1977, a series of events involving murders, abductions, PFLP and Siad Barre (find the all on wikipedia.org).
The movie, released in Germany on Sept 25 and chosen as a candidate for the foreign-language Oscar, caused the following reactions:
1. The daughter of Ulrike Meinhof, the original gang's leader:
"The film portrays one murder after another without any sense of meaning, any explanation," Bettina Roehl said in an interview Thursday. (...) the film is offensive not only for its glut of violent scenes but because "in nonverbal but very suggestive ways, the film insinuates that their motivations for terrorism are understandable. That is 100 percent wrong," said Roehl, who has long decried the Red Army Faction's violent campaign against the West German establishment.
2. The daughter of Juergen Ponto, CEO of Dresdner Bank, assassinated:
"There were never any images from the (group's) assassination of my father until now," Ponto was quoted as saying in the Die Welt daily. "That always provided a degree of comfort and solace for us. I find the film's willingness to wrongfully invade our privacy particularly perfidious."
3. The son of assassinated industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer
praised it in the Bild daily for showing up the faction as a "pitiless gang of murderers."
4. The movie producer, Bernd Eichinger
defended the depiction of another killing — that of West German federal prosecutor Siegfried Buback — against criticism from his son. He acknowledged that the scene would be "difficult" for Buback's son, but argued that "showing the scene in a watered-down form" would have meant "knowingly falsifying and downplaying the facts," according to an interview with the Hoerzu weekly.
Source: news.yahoo.com
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