A German Youth tells the history of the Rote Armee Fraktion (or Red Army Faction, a German revolutionary terrorist group from the 1970s founded notably by Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof) as well as the images generated by this story. The film is entirely produced by editing preexisting visual and sound archives and aims to question viewers on the significance of this revolutionary movement during its time, as well as its resonance for today’s society.

The Crew

Director, Author, Editor

Jean-Gabriel PERIOT

Writting Collaborators

Anne PASCHETTA

Pierre HODGSON

Nicole BRENEZ

Anne STEINER

Production Manager and Researcher

Emmanuelle KOENIG

Sound

Etienne CURCHOD

Laure ARTO

Music

Alan MUMENTHALER

Xavier THIBAULT

Format

DCP – 1.85 – B&W and Coulors – 5.1

Lenght

92′

Version

Original german and french / French subtitles

Original german and french / English subtitles

Year

2015

Production

Nicolas BREVIERE / LOCAL FILMS

in coproduction with

David EPINEY et Eugenia MUMENTHALER / ALINA FILM

Meike MARTENS / BLINKER FILMPRODUKTION

Partners

RBB

ARTE

RADIO TÉLÉVISION SUISSE – UNITÉ DES FILMS DOCUMENTAIRES

CNC

EURIMAGES

INDEFILMS 3

OFFICE FEDERAL DE LA CULTURE – DFI

CINEFOROM

LOTERIE ROMANDE

French Sales

UFO DISTRIBUTION

International Sales

FILMS BOUTIQUE

Prizes

- Best first film / Lima independiente film festival
- Scam international jury prize / Cinéma du réel
- Best innovative swiss film / Visions du réel
- Special jury prize silver apricot / Yerevan golden apricot film festival
- Special mention / BAFICI
- Special mention / DocAviv
- Special mention / Guanajuato international film festival

Festivals

- Berlin international film festival – Panorama opening film
- French cinema week in Saxe-Anhalt
- Dok fest / Munich
- Cinéma du réel / Paris
- Festival international du film de la Rochelle
- États généraux du film documentaire / Lussas
- L’étrange festival / Paris
- Festival du cinéma / Douarnenez
- Rencontres cinéma / Gindou
- Kino vision / Marseille
- Les rendez-vous de l’histoire / Blois
- Ânûû-rû âboro festival international du cinéma des peuples / Nouvelle Calédonie
- Festival international du film grolandais / Toulouse
- Vision du réel / Nyon
- Festival fu film français / Bienne
- Milano international film festival
- Indielisboa / Lisbonne
- San Sebastian international film festival
- Transilvanian International film festival / Cluj-Napoca
- Golden apricot international film festival / Yerevan
- Dokufest / Priznen
- Sarajevo film festival
- Moscow inernational film festival
- DocAviv / Tel Aviv
- Guanajuato international film festival
- BAFICI / Buenos Aires
- Lima festival de cine independiente
- San Francisco film festival
- The open Singapore international festival of arts
- Melbourne international film festival