Volker Schlöndorff – Die Stille nach dem Schuß AKA The Legend of Rita (2000)
Die Stille nach dem Schuss or The Silence after the Shot, known in English as The Legend of Rita, is a 2000 German film about fictionalised exiled West German radical left Red Army Faction members, though the fictional characters all have close parallels to several real-life RAF members. After a brief overview of the initial bank robberies of the 2nd of June Movement with the distribution of chocolate kisses as well as a disastrous prison break at the Westberliner Prison, the group flees, via the Friedrichstraße train station, into the German Democratic Republic.
Notably, the film is shot with a decidedly 1970sesque color scheme, rather than with simply 1970s furniture and effects as most such movies do; this provides an interesting “throwback” visual experience for the viewer considering the movie was indeed made in the 21st century. And although the movie mainly centers around the trials and tribulations of a leftist-activist woman known as Rita Vogt, many motifs in the script reflect Inge Viett’s real life, who really did flee to East Germany along with some others and really did get a new identity to live under.
The.Legend.of.Rita.2000.720p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP2.0.H.264-playWEB.mkv General Container: Matroska Runtime: 1h 37mn Size: 4.17 GiB Video Codec: h264 Resolution: 1280x688 Aspect ratio: 1.85:1 Frame rate: 29.970 fps Bit rate: 6 000 kb/s Audio German 2.0ch E-AC-3 @ 224 kb/s
Language(s):German
Subtitles:English
