Children of the Revolution (2010)

Directed by

Shane O'Sullivan

Genre

documentary film

Country

Germany, Ireland, England

Runtime

1h 32m

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 10 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary looks at two women who led militant groups in the 1970s. It tells their story through the eyes of their daughters. The film uses old footage from protests and training camps.

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What happens

Children of the Revolution is a 2010 documentary by Irish filmmaker Shane O'Sullivan about Ulrike Meinhof and Fusako Shigenobu, leaders of the German Red Army Faction and the Japanese Red Army. The film describes the experiences of Meinhof and Shigenobu through the perspective of their daughters, Mei and Bettina, and uses archive footage of student protests and guerrilla training camps in Germany, Japan and the Middle East. The film premiered at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam in November 2010 and has screened at several international festivals. It had its broadcast premiere on German channel Westdeutscher Rundfunk on 30 May 2011 and was released on DVD in the United Kingdom in 2011. It was pitched at the 2009 Sheffield Doc/Fest MeetMarket. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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