Acting
May 28, 1947
Kassel, Germany
Astrid Proll
Acting
Biography
Astrid Proll became known as a co-founder of the left-wing extremist terrorist organization Rote Armee Fraktion. She was involved in the liberation of Andreas Baader and was imprisoned from 1971 to 1974 and 1978 to 1980. She then worked as a photographer, author and editor.
Feature Films (5)
Documents a one-week meeting of radical leftist activists known as "Knastkamp" (Prison battle), which took place in July 1969 in Ebrach, Bamberg.
Die wilden Tiere
The Baader-Meinhof gang, a left-wing terrorist collective born of the student revolutions of the Sixties, terrorized West Germany with a series of bombings, assassinations and hijackings in the Seventies. They became die RAF - die rote army fraktion in 1970. It is claimed that property destruction during the Watts riots in the United States in 1965 influenced the practical and ideological approach of the RAF founders. As for changing the world, they failed. All they achieved was to make West Germany a less tolerant, more paranoid society than it had been before.
Baader-Meinhof Gang
Inspired by the student revolutions of 1968, two women in Germany and Japan set out to plot world revolution as leaders of the Baader Meinhof Group and the Japanese Red Army. What were they fighting for and what have we learned?
Children of the Revolution
From the inner workings of the RAF. Former RAF-member Peter-Jürgen Boock reveal the many secrets and myths about the Baader-Meinhof gang a.k.a. RAF - Rote Armee Fraktion.
The RAF: The Red Army Fraction
On one level, Friendly Fire is a portrait of the poet Erich Fried by his son, the filmmaker Klaus Fried. But it is also an exploration of the traumatic legacy of a century of European history that raises questions about our direction of travel and the cyclical nature of our inheritance.
Friendly Fire
Television & Series (2)
In 2014, Germany television network ZDF commissioned a comprehensive TV documentary on the history of the Red Army Faction (RAF). In six 45-minute parts, the series describes the origins, rise, and fall of the terrorist organization "Red Army Faction." Interviewees include Winfried Ridder, former head of department at the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution; Rainer Hofmeyer, former head of department at the Federal Criminal Police Office; and political scientist Dr. Wolfgang Kraushaar.
The History of the RAF
An in-depth look at news stories. Documentaries that take you behind the scenes giving an insight into people's lives or institutions.