Starbuck Holger Meins

May 23 2002 N/A 1h 30m

Documentary

Twenty-five years after the death of Holger Meins, filmmaker and former student friend of the deceased, Gerd Conradt takes an in-depth look at the helmsman of the Baader-Meinhof gang. Who was Holger Meins? What led him into the underground? What circumstances resulted in his death, a death which made him the declared symbol of the radical opposition in Germany? What remains of his legacy?

Plot

"Starbuck", the name of the navigator from the book Moby Dick, was also the undercover alias of Holger Meins (1941-1974), the navigator of the Baader-Meinhof group. A documentary about a young man who died at the age of 33 as a result of a hunger strike in prison.

Written by

Gerd Conradt, Hartmut Jahn

Directed by

Gerd Conradt

Cast

Michael Ballhaus, Suzanne Beyeler, Manfred Blessmann

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Production Countries

Germany

Languages

Deutsch

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156

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5.6 out of 10

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