The documentary 'A German Youth,' directed by Jean-Gabriel Périot, is a detailed look at violent German radicalism of the Baader Meinhof Gang.
Fiendishly researched and smartly constructed, “A German Youth” is a formidable piece of documentary detective work focusing on a small but significant historical moment that continues to matter.
Though never large in numbers, at its zenith in 1972, the group detonated a wave of bombs that left five dead, 65 wounded, and a considerable amount of carnage in their wake.All that destruction mobilized the entirety of the German security apparatus and almost all of the group met violent and controversial deaths.
For it is the determination of “A German Youth” to not only show how things looked from ground zero but also to provide the context for what happened, to show how middle-class German youths came to feel they had no other choice but to radicalize themselves and resort to violence.
That school turned out to be an intensely radical place, with even a color film test for a camera class showing a series of men carrying an enormous red flag through the streets of Berlin. And one of Meins’ most famous films, now lost but reconstructed, was called “How to Make A Molotov Cocktail.”
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