Documentary

Stockholm - 75

Name: Stockholm - 75
Director: David Aronowitsch
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2003-09-25
Duration: 59 min
Rating: 6.3
Cast: Karl-Heinz Dellwo, Siegfried Hausner, Hanna Krabbe, Bernhard Rössner, Lutz Taufer

September 25, 2003

59m

TMDB6.3· 4

In April 1975 Commando Holger Meins occupies the West German Embassy in Stockholm. In exchange for the hostages they want to force the release of RAF-prisoners in Germany; Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof, Gudrun Ensslin, etc. The occupation lasts twelve hours and ends in defeat for the occupants, left is a blown-up Embassy and four people dead, two of them executed by the occupants. Karl-Heinz Dellwo, 23 years old, is arrested and sentenced to jail. In 1995 he is released from prison. Today he lives in Hamburg with his girlfriend Ella, also a former terrorist. Karl-Heinz is trying to create a new life for himself, but he is always haunted by his violent past.