With the exception of Meinhof, who had been found dead in her cell in 1976, the leaders were convicted on several murder and terrorism charges and sentenced to life in prison in 1977, kicking off a string of events now known as the “German Autumn.” After a string of robberies and bombings, Baader, Ensslin, and Meinhof were all arrested in 1972, but a “second generation” carried on in their absence. When we see the RAF in Suspiria, most of their original leaders are in jail. (Though the RAF received assistance from the East German government, the regime generally considered them unruly dilettantes.) You might have also heard them called the Baader-Meinhof group, after two of their leaders: Andreas Baader, Ensslin’s boyfriend, who as David Clay Large drily notes in Berlin, “seems to have drifted into the radical protest movement less out of conviction than out of a desire for adventure and self-dramatization” and Ulrike Meinhof, a former journalist who joined the gang after helping Baader escape from prison. If you haven’t: The RAF was a Marxist terror group that emerged out of the more militant fringes of West German counterculture. The Red Army Faction If you’ve seen Suspiria, this was the group that Chloë Grace Moretz’s character supposedly fell in with. You can’t argue with people who made Auschwitz. As Gudrun Ensslin, a founder of the Red Army Faction, put it after West Berlin police killed a young protester in 1967: “This is the generation of Auschwitz we’ve got against us. In Germany, the late-’60s generation gap was even starker than in other Western countries, as young people born during or after the war woke up to the fact that their parents’ generation had perpetrated one of history’s greatest monstrosities. by AnonymousĪfter what Luca Guadagnino calls “20 years of obliviousness,” the Nazi years were introduced into German school curricula in the early ’60s, just in time to enter the minds of the youths who would be on the front lines of the decade’s subsequent cultural shifts. Shoot with no sound, then all sound and dialogue dubbed in later. And this is the way most (but not every one) Italian films and television were shot back then. R29 Actually, most of the actors were Italian. SO MANY giallo films were made in the 1960/70's and 80's. The giallo genre is massive and all over the place. He is one of the most famous giallo directors, so discovery of his films often leads to a "gateway" of discovering the genre had many star directors, some better than Argento in many ways, but countless films and lesser-know directors (and sub-genres). Most of his films after 1980, not so much. The debate continues! I think his first eight films (most people agree) are stylish masterpieces of bold weirdness, that have influenced a few generations of filmmakers in their own way. People have been saying Argento is overrated since he first became mega-famous in Europe in the 70's.
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