FREE ON YOUTUBE Black Box BRD (engl. subt.)

FREE ON YOUTUBE (YOU FIND THE WHOLE FILM WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES FREE ON YOUTUBE) Stupid! Someone "borrowed" our DVD Black Box BRD and didn't bring it back. We'll reorder it as soon as possible! The private catastrophe of two men triggers the fight of the RAF against the FRG. Two men who could hardly be more different. On the one hand, Alfred von Herrhausen, trained in an NS elite school, later board member of Deutsche Bank. A businessman whose judgement also carries weight in politics. Towards him: Wolfgang Grams, a child from simple backgrounds who rebelled against "normality" as a teenager. He will join the hard core of the RAF. Who wouldn't be tempted to make a biased film with this material? But not Andreas Veiel, whose Black Box BRD does NOT derive feelings from facts. Let us now approach these two men - through stories by friends and relatives - the picture becomes blurred. Neither of the two is as clear as we thought. Herrhausen is not only a cold capitalist, but also a charming bon vivant. He often cannot cope with the merciless practices of his business friends. And Grams is not only an aesthete and "revolutionary", but also a fanatic. He dreams of being able to strangle his opponents with bare hands. They stand up for their ideals, but also suffer from inner conflict. Also Grams. Black Box BRD is not a simple attempt to set the life of a murderer against that of his victim. By the way: Was Grams at all involved in the assassination of Herrhausen? Veiel does not even speculate at this point. Dark hatred and feelings of revenge have no place in this documentary. When the relatives cry in front of the camera, the camera doesn't stop because we spectators have to satisfy our voyeurism. She continues filming as the narrative continues. Fortunately, we are also spared a kind of educational film (with the obligatory stipendium from the off). Do we need thinking aids? I think we can make our own picture. Sometimes Black Box BRD is even funny, for example when another bank board complacently babbles about the "Er A Ef" or when a former "revolutionary" theorizes in his bourgeois allotment garden that Herrhausen had to see in his function at that time. Not least Helmut Kohl, who raves about the "patriotism" of Alfred v. Herrhausen. Veiel keeps all this together with a lot of creativity. It results in a seamless whole. Above all, he captures the restlessness of his two main characters. Grams like Herrhausen was in motion until the end, whether on journeys or on the run. So Germany must have been at the height of the fear of terrorism. Headlines, hate letters - and ordinary, perhaps boring people turned into infamous enemies of the state who were hated by strangers.