Terrorist and victim to close: In this provocative as fulminant RAF drama "Shadow World" chasing a young Rächerin the presumed murderer of her father - and the disastrous German Autumn rampant in the present.
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Before the prison jostle the television crews, the last single prisoner of the RAF is released. When a car drives through the gate, stop him immediately after the press, finally, because the ex-terrorists are sitting there, still so many mysteries with rumträgt. Who was it really, at the time the fatal shots at the bank president has?
The media people will refer the matter to this day no longer get answered. When the atrial gelichtet has, namely, the man enters from a side exit, all the excitement is: Volker Widmer (Ulrich Noethen), a former RAF member of the second generation, for 22 years in prison, once again a free man in a small cars, he finally without any journalists clamor from his lawyer in his new life there, a panel on the outskirts of Freiburg.
The silence after lightning flash - it is perhaps the best starting point for a drama about guilt and retribution, to eternal truths lies and last for a movie, the big issue in the smallest possible frame negotiation. In the great initial setting of the RAF-drama "shadow world" looked at the camera control the press or from extreme distance - to the course of the film very close to the ex-terrorists ranzugehen. But as someone who can really come close?
22 years now make up a prison does not soften. Widmer contributes almost a shield from vulgar militancy before him, and old struggle Fäkalsprache terms are used by him to an armored voice melded. In the flat panel arrived, builds the same ex-Knacki still sparse Ikea furniture than Wall around on. The CD shelf as he assigns a grid before the window, the prison is also dismissed a piece certainty.
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Finally, it is still Widmer at war with the world, even if the enemy can no longer designated. The old radicals: The struggle continues, failing him, he just with himself
But that is not necessary. Because in the apartment next door, a young woman eingemietet that it actually has a man apart: Valerie (Franziska Petri) is something like a forgotten history. My father was a gardener at the terrorist cell of Widmer Murdered banker - and arrived at the attack also killed. Now she wants the ex-RAFler personally accountable for. But he was there at all, the fatal shots has competence?
The facts of the situation in the "shadow world" remains ambiguous, and that this film may be on the credit side of. Director Connie Walther makes sense in two seriously with the title: Just as the two protagonists unsettledness not out of the shadows of history into the light of the present finding, it remains the exact sequence of the historical crime in the dark. But precisely because such a paradox, the director brings the issue painfully efficiently into the here and now.
SHADOW WORLD (GERMANY, 2008)
Directed by Connie Walther
Screenplay: Uli Herrmann, Peter-Jürgen Boock
Connie Walther (Co-authors)
Cast: Franziska Petri, Ulrich Noethen, Uwe Kockisch, Tatja Seibt, Eva Mattes, Christoph Bach, Mehdi Nebbou, Gottfried Breitfuß
Production: Next Film
Rental: Edition Salzgeber
Duration: 92 minutes
Start: 25 June 2009
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Instead supposedly safe distance from the German Autumn as manageable, completed Chronicle to present
as recently as a major research venture and reconstruction of the "Baader Meinhof Complex" has done, the conflict is rampant in "Shadow World" (Co-Author: Peter-Jürgen Boock; Screenplay: Uli Herrmann) malign the present: In the figure of the RAF Veterans Widmer can be seen easily bonds to Christian Klar, who recently after 26 years' imprisonment was dismissed. And Valerie child victim is in urgent need of their past certainties similarities to Michael Buback, which is still tormented by the question is, who exactly 30 years ago, his father, the Federal Prosecutor General Siegfried Buback, murdered has.
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How these allusions incorporated into the film, which is likely not appeal, especially in the development of the project, including the former RAF member Peter-Jürgen Boock has acted not as an absolutely reliable in terms of historical analysis is valid.
But with provocative productions Connie Walther has been experience.
For their TV "12 says: I love you" she said two years ago, the love story between a Stasi officer and a victim of his interrogation. Before broadcasting ran several storm victims associations against her work because it has a trivialisation of the GDR's feared crime and later gave it to right the German Television Award.
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Changing the subject, the same thrust: As in East drama is now the RAF Spätfolgenstudie "shadow world" of the matter, as victims and perpetrators equally active characters can be made to somehow act on an equal footing, without the suffering of one and the guilt of the other to be put. Walther find a few strong, disturbing images, such as when the ex-terrorist and Rächerin smoke pot on the balcony, while below them in the garden the lives of others takes place. Third, the world is them two in the same way - just as is the old man responsible for ensuring that the young woman as well.
In reality, there is between perpetrators and victims silenced. One can not be forced to talk (or talking about things but the only way), the others wait in vain for final truths. The RAF blockbuster "Baader Meinhof Complex" because nothing has changed. By daring narrative order, the prolongation of the conflict in the present triggers Walther director with "shadow world" but in the sense of shame, fear and pain, to stare. Maybe it just needed the silence after lightning flash.