Organized by Kluge, several of the directors appear onscreen—most notably Fassbinder, with lover Armin Meier—to personalize their filmed responses to events that stunned the country: Baader-Meinhof Group followers kidnapped businessman Hanns Martin-Schleyer to effect prisoners’ releases, but the outcome was multiple deaths. Schlöndorff’s segment delves into television censorship, with a cast including Cabaret’s Helmut Griem.

In German with English subtitles