Director: Birgit Schulz
Script: Birgit Schulz
Music: Pluramon
Sound: Pascal Capitolin
Principal Cast: Horst Mahler, Otto Schily, Hans-Christian Ströbele
Producer: Sabine de Mardt
Commissioning Editor WDR: Christiane Hinz
Commissioning Editor WDR/ARTE: Andrea Ernst
Commissioning Editor NDR: Silvia Gutmann
Commissioning Editor RBB: Jens Stubenrauch
Distribution:
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The lawyers are among us: In the forty years since the court cases against Baader and Ensslin, the three then defense lawyers of the socialist fighters have embarked on careers that could not have taken them to more different places: Otto Schily, back then a brilliant elite lawyer on the left, later quit the Green party he had helped to found, joined the SPD and served as a stern Minister of the Interior; Hans-Christian Ströbele, then a lawyer in training, is still an intellectual leader and the token leftist of the eco-party; and Horst Mahler, Baader's defense attorney, now denies the Holocaust and is associated with the right-wing NPD. In this fascinating documentary, director Birgit Schulz examines the turbulent life journeys of three former lawyers who have left their mark on the Federal Republic.