Friday, November 28, 2008

On behalf of the victims

Can a national trauma in a television film making? Is the goggle-box, with its limited aesthetic really suited to the madness of the RAF terror gefühlsecht to transport - with its brutal kidnappings and murders, including the shock waves in the federal government under Helmut Schmidt and the unprecedented media hysteria? And what about what concerns us today to? Even if now one of the last protagonists of the "German Autumn", Christian Klar, after 26 years of dismissing the RAF and the chapter thus legally off seems?

Perhaps it is simply the time has come to change the perspective in the film retrospective. So far mostly focused on only the terrorists in Focus - Baader, Meinhof, Ensslin - with its political and mental exorcism and therefore also umweht a Gloriole of horror as the admiration, it gives you today, apparently the victims of terror more attention. Like last Uli Edels cinema shocker "The Baader Meinhof Complex", the most recent residual halo of ruthless killer-the RAF in the blood of murdered ersäufte.

If tonight meticulously the kidnapping of the Lufthansa plane "Landshut" by four Palestinian terrorists on 13 October 1977 postpositive will work out and literally - to Be exemption of the hostages by the GSG 9 in Mogadishu, then this happens primarily from the

Perspective of the victims. Because "Mogadishu" wants "an attempt" to "the fate of the abductees to truly describe", as it expresses cameraman Holly Fink.

What that means, we experience the fate of "Landshut" captain Juergen Schumann (Thomas Kretschmann), whose behavior until his assassination by the head of the hostage-taker (Said Taghmaoui) has not been clearly assessed. But screenwriter and documentary filmmaker Maurice Philip Remy, the three years researched, was among hundreds of time and those eyewitnesses Yemeni General, with Schumann in Aden last spoke and confirmed that the master of his life to rescue the hostages and its Crew

(including Nadja Uhl, Simon Verhoeven) has been established.

Thus primed with facts and Gabriela Sperl further processed, is a colossal Remys screenplay template for director Roland Suso Richter, to the horror of this kidnapping for us bystanders or later births are to be felt. Because, as he cast his brilliant actor team up to their physical and mental limits driving, transmits almost one to one on the audience. Whether in the scorching weather of the "Landshut" among the hostages

(including Cornelia Schmaus, Valerie Niehaus), or the person responsible. Simply breathtaking, as Christian Berkel Chancellor Schmidt voiced, as Juergen Tarrach into the uncomfortable role of negotiators Wischnewski slips or Herbert Knaup as the GSG-9-Ulrich Wegener's only one face and then profile.

At the end is "Mogadishu" above all - authentically. As if we live. Even so, therefore, is from a TV movie a thrilling time document. History could hardly be more vivid.

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