Director: Stefan Krohmer
Script: Daniel Nocke
Photography: Patrick Orth, Bernhard Keller
Casting: Nina Haun
Music: Stefan Leisering
Sound: Johannes Grehl, Michael Klöfkorn
Principal Cast: Christoph Bach, Pasquale Aleardi, Emily Cox
Producers: Benjamin Benedict, Nico Hofmann
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Historical narrative is currently the Germans' favorite child in cinemas. Thankfully, though, screenwriter Daniel Nocke's and director Stefan Krohmer's effort unfolds in a different fashion from that of the most recent big budget history lessons. In their film about Rudi Dutschke, the two gather a plethora of partly very personal interviews with relatives and companions of this key intellectual captain of the 1968 generation, and combine them with subtly scripted scenes to create a matter-of-fact, yet engaging portrait of the man and the period he has helped to shape. Besides the young man and revolutionary, the audience is also introduced to the later man in exile, the eventual repatriate, and the convalescent in the aftermath of the attempt on his life that he barely survived