This courtroom drama about the trial of the Baader-Meinhof defendants was the controversial winner of the 1986 Golden Bear award at the Berlin Film Festival. Screenwriter and Baader-Meinhof biographer Stefan Aust (Der Baader Meinhof Komplex) based the drama almost completely on the actual trial transcript. Like the events themselves, Hauff creates a milieu that is lurid and occasionally surreal: a courtroom lit by eerie fluorescent lights and menaced by the whirring of an air conditioner, and prison cells that foretell tragedy.