Martin Wuttke

  • Volker Schlöndorff – Die Stille nach dem Schuß AKA The Legend of Rita (2000)

    Volker Schlöndorff1991-2000DramaGermanyQueer Cinema(s)Romance
    Die Stille nach dem Schuß (2000)
    Die Stille nach dem Schuß (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.Read More »

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