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Black Box Germany
(Black Box BRD)

Andres Veiel In Person April 12
Screening on Film
Directed by Andres Veiel.
With Dr. Rolf E. Breuer, Wolfgang Grams, Traudl Herrhausen.
Germany, 2001, 35mm, color and b&w, 102 min.
German with English subtitles.

Andres Veiel’s documentary steps back into German history to portray the Federal Republic of Germany of the 1970s and 1980s. The country is polarized due to the power struggle between the German state and the Red Army Faction; society is torn, the fronts are irreconcilable. Focusing on the characters of Alfred Herrhausen, a spokesman for Deutsche Bank who was killed in a car bombing in 1989, and Wolfgang "Gaks" Grams, an activist implicated in the crime and killed in a police shoot-out, Veiel uses interviews, archival news footage, and home-movies to portray the times.

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