Regie:
Andres VeielScenario:
Andres VeielCamera:
Judith KaufmannMuziek:
Annette FocksActeurs:
August Diehl, Lena Lauzemis, Alexander Fehling, Thomas Thieme, Susanne Lothar, Rainer Bock, Maria Dragus, Joachim Paul Assböck, Hark Bohm, Imogen Kogge (meer)Samenvattingen(1)
West Germany in the early 1960s. The country is quiet – for the time being. Bernward Vesper takes up his studies in Tübingen where he is attending Walter Jens' seminar on rhetoric. Bernward wants to be a writer and spends his nights bashing the keys of a typewriter. At the same time he is keen to defend his father, the poet Will Vesper who was celebrated by the Nazis as a proponent of their 'Blood and Soil' ideology. The land where Bernward lives is being suffocated by its past. The war has only been over for fifteen years, old Nazis are back in positions of power, and nobody is prepared to talk about war crimes; the Republic is standing to attention. One day Bernward meets Gudrun Ensslin and her friend Dörte. Before long, the three friends are living together in a ménage à trois. But their three-way relationship doesn't last long. It soon transpires that Gudrun and Bernward are twin souls. This marks the beginning of an extreme relationship that is unquestioning and excessive, a love story that goes beyond the threshold of pain. Setting out together to conquer the world, the pair arrives in West Berlin in 1964 where they become part of the left-wing bo-ho set. When the Social Democratic Party agrees to form a grand coalition with the Christian Democratic Union, Bernward and Gudrun are not the only ones who decide to join the Extraparliamentary Opposition movement. Gudrun and Bernward become part of a social and political upheaval that soon takes hold around the globe: liberation movements, student protests and the Black Panther movement in the USA; drugs and rock 'n' roll. The course of history is inexorable but, at the time, for a moment, it looks as if it might be possible to change its path. If not us, who? And when, if not now? And then another man, Andreas Baader, appears on the scene... (Berlinale)
(meer)Acteurs
![Claudia Geisler-Bading](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/450/159450829_e2b08b.jpg)
Claudia Geisler-Bading
Oost-Duitsland
Beste films:
Die Unberührbare (2000)
Die Unsichtbare (2011)
Barbara (2012)
![Alexander Khuon](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/165/160165343_faf925.jpg)
Alexander Khuon
West-Duitsland
Beste films:
Lila, Lila (2009)
Lara (2019)
Nö (2021)
![Peter Benedict](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/556/159556627_32a8a5.jpg)
Peter Benedict
Zwitserland
Beste films:
1864 - Brødre i krig (2014)
Gladbeck (2018) (serie)
Les Amours imaginaires (2010)
![Andreas Döhler](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/746/159746441_2c61f3.jpg)
Andreas Döhler
Oost-Duitsland
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Nö (2021)
Wer wenn nicht wir (2011)
![Bettina Redlich](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/200/161200021_f6329c.jpg)
Bettina Redlich
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![Hubertus Hartmann](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/001/160001169_8c59ce.jpg)
Hubertus Hartmann
West-Duitsland
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Das Wunder von Berlin (2008) (Tv-film)
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![Henriette Nagel](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/998/159998648_266d9c.jpg)
Henriette Nagel
Beste films:
Wer wenn nicht wir (2011)
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (serie)
Risiko Pille (2019) (Tv-film)
![Markus Lerch](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/163/234/163234436_008f7c.jpg)
Markus Lerch
Beste films:
Beat (2018) (serie)
Das Fremde in mir (2008)
Wer wenn nicht wir (2011)
![Heike Hanold-Lynch](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/476/161476991_68b34e.jpg)
Heike Hanold-Lynch
Duitsland
Beste films:
The Reader (2008)
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
Cloud Atlas (2012)
![Sven Gerhardt](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/166/502/166502052_286498.jpg)
Sven Gerhardt
West-Duitsland
Beste films:
Werk ohne Autor (2018)
Gladbeck (2018) (serie)
Ku'damm 63 (2021) (serie)
![Norbert Hülm](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/101/161101741_78f700.jpg)
Norbert Hülm
Beste films:
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Praxis mit Meerblick (2017) (serie)
Wer wenn nicht wir (2011)
![Susanne-Marie Wrage](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/640/160640644_c741e4.jpg)
Susanne-Marie Wrage
West-Duitsland
Beste films:
Vom Atmen unter Wasser (2008) (Tv-film)
Wer wenn nicht wir (2011)
Flug in die Nacht - Das Unglück von Überlingen (2009) (Tv-film)
Justus Carrière
Oost-Duitsland
Beste films:
Race (2016)
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Wer wenn nicht wir (2011)
Conrad F. Geyer
Beste films:
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Wer wenn nicht wir (2011)
(T)Raumschiff Surprise - Periode 1 (2004)
Kathrin Wehlisch
Oost-Duitsland
Beste films:
Das Lehrerzimmer (2023)
Es gilt das gesprochene Wort (2019)
Phoenix (2014)
Sophie Bogdan
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Petra Hartung
Beste films:
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
The Reader (2008)
Ku'damm 63 (2021) (serie)
Kai Holzapfel
West-Duitsland
Beste films:
Valkyrie (2008)
Die Wölfe (2009) (serie)
Go West - Freiheit um jeden Preis (2011) (Tv-film)
Uwe Schmieder
Beste films:
Wer wenn nicht wir (2011)