If Not Us, Who?

  • August Diehl: Bernward Vesper
  • Lena Lauzemis: Gudrun Ensslin
  • Alexander Fehling: Andreas Baader
  • Thomas Thieme: Will Vesper
  • Imogen Kogge: Rose Vesper
  • Michael Wittenborn: Helmut Ensslin
  • Susanne Lothar: Ilse Ensslin
  • Sebastian Blomberg: Klaus Roehler
  • Maria- Victoria Dragus: Ruth Ensslin
  • Rainer Bock: Defender
  • Susanne -Marie Wrage: Head of Institute
  • Benjamin Sadler Walter Jens
  • Stephanie Stremler: Ulrike
  • Peter Benedict: publisher
  • Heike Hanold - Lynch: mentor
  • Kathrin Wehlisch: Ello
  • Hasko Weber: writer
  • Eddie Jordan: Stokely Carmichael
  • John Allmayer: young publisher
  • Andreas Doehler: young publisher
  • Bettina Redlich: landlady
  • Hanno Koffler: Uli Ensslin
  • Henriette Nagel: Johanna Ensslin
  • Vicky Krieps: Dorte
  • Martin Butzke: Dieter Kunzelmann

Who if not we is a feature film made ​​in 2011 by Andres Veiel, which is primarily known as a documentary of Black Box BRD and The Kick. The Berlinale Competition film Who if not we show the sensitivities in Germany before the turn of 1968 and shakes the usual explanation for the theses developments in subsequent years. Veiel's debut feature tells a political love story that ends in terror. As a template for the script served Gerd Koenen study Vesper, Ensslin, Baader - primal scenes of German terrorism. To the individual characters in the film Veiel also has self researched over the years and collected material.

Action

The first pictures show Tübingen in 1961. Though a spirit of optimism in Germany, so everything is still quiet and serene. The young Bernward Vesper hacks angry and socio-critical sets in his typewriter. He, the son of hitler true poet Will Vesper, desires, and wants to make a difference. The encounter with Gudrun Ensslin opens into an intense love story that does not, however, permanent. Gudrun is the daughter of Pastor Helmut Ensslin, who was on the one hand supporters of oppositional Confessing Church under the Nazis and simultaneously entered as a soldier in Hitler's army - to protect the family. The first unconditional and boundless love between Gudrun and Bernward is getting more complicated and breaks, when Bernward loses in drug trips and Gudrun disappears in the armed RAF base. Andreas Baader plays in this event only a minor role. However, it is more consistent and radical than Bernward. Bernward, Gudrun and Andreas, the centrifugal forces of history, from which it is collected, not control.

Criticism

" Enriched with archive material to the historical background, he designs [ the movie ] a portrait that focuses primarily on the intellectual tensions. Played forcefully, the film is a multi-faceted insight into his subject, however, has some blurred and which fails to capture the lifestyle of its protagonists and their time convincing about the factual out. "

" A powerful drama narrated time, immersed in the spirit, the gestures, the talk of those stormy years, but in the end always is more psychological than political. So exciting people and cinema is not merely an end in thesis film. "

" A prequel to the German terrorism, as she has not yet told in such biographical intensity and, moreover, an exciting lesson for young German search for identity after the war. "

" Andres Veiel has the better Baader Meinhof Complex rotated. His film Who if not we still is not more than a film biography. "

"Star of the Day: Lena Lauzemis that makes her feature the path of self- punishing pastor's daughter Gudrun Ensslin to the world punishing RAF terrorist credible understandable. "

Awards

The film won at the 2011 Berlinale the Alfred Bauer Prize and the Prize of the Guild of German Art House Cinemas. In the same year five nominations for the German Film Prize followed ( Best Picture, Best Actor - August Diehl, Best Actress - Lena Lauzemis, Best Editing, Best Art Direction ). In the category of the production won the Film Award in Bronze.

The German Film and Media Review (FBW ) gave the film the title of " most valuable".

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