The Baader Meinhof

This film was made in 2008 and was written and produced by Bernd Eichinger. It tells the story of four Germans who carry out the fire bombing of a department store that was responsible for the death of a protestor. The young protestor was killed because he was against the ruling of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the leader of Iran. The group was then put on trial for the bombing and were defended by a lawyer who shared the groups beliefs. After each of their prison sentences were finished, the group had become more appealing to young Germans; they became known as RAF. The RAF describes themselves as a communist and anti imperialist urban guerilla group engaged in armed resistance against what they viewed a fascist state. Members of the RAF generally used the Marxist-Leninist  term"Faction" when they wrote in English. The German Government considered RAF a terrorist organization because they were for responsible for nearly 300 bomb attacks and murdered many people without reason from 1973 to 1995.