Germany, 1968: The priest's daughters Marianna and Juliane both fight for changes in society, like making abortion legal. However their means are totally different: while Juliane's committed as a reporter, her sister joins a terroristic organization. After she's caught by the police and put into isolation jail, Juliane remains as her last connection to the rest of the world. Although she doesn't accept her sister's arguments and her boyfriend Wolfgang doesn't want her to, Juliane keeps on helping her sister. She begins to question the way her sister is treated.
Going in, I pretty much new nothing about this film, but the few things I knew and the fact that this is directed by Margarethe von Trotta, gave me high hopes.
I kinda expected (hoped) this would focus more on the fight for abortion and I was (positively) surprised by it being based on the lives of RAF terrorist Gudrun Ensslin and her sister Christiane. The film explores Gudrun’s involvement in the terrorist group and their actions and effects on society and people from a very interesting and unconventional perspective, is very personal and asks the question if activism can be done without action and if not, at what cost.
While I didn’t completely love the film, I enjoyed the angle and von Trotta’s direction as well as her approaches to the different themes are very interesting.
Going in, I pretty much new nothing about this film, but the few things I knew and the fact that this is directed by Margarethe von Trotta, gave me high hopes.
I kinda expected (hoped) this would focus more on the fight for abortion and I was (positively) surprised by it being based on the lives of RAF terrorist Gudrun Ensslin and her sister Christiane. The film explores Gudrun’s involvement in the terrorist group and their actions and effects on society and people from a very interesting and unconventional perspective, is very personal and asks the question if activism can be done without action and if not, at what cost.
While I didn’t completely love the film, I enjoyed the angle and von Trotta’s direction as well as her approaches to the different themes are very interesting.
