A German trio (Scholl, Meinhof, Ensslin) - three women I did not know before and I was only and mainly inspired by films I saw. Germany is a country next to mine but I was not aware of these important fighters who lived not so long ago, in the 40s and 70s.First I saw the German film "Die Welle" about a US school experiment where there is a week of autocracy class, a film based on real events. There was a scene which copied the events carried out by the White Rose movement in Nazi Germany, where one of the leading figures was Scholl (she was cought and arrested for throwing out anti-Nazi leaflets at university). Then, logically, I went to see a film about her short life and resistance movement - Sophie Scholl: The Final Days.
Meinhof and Ensslin very much continue in the line of resistance in Germany, they are almost autobiographically portraied in the film Der Baader Meinhof Komplex. I knew about RAF from the film Munich and also because of the Lufthansa plane hijacking, but I did not know any details about the group, who they were, how they started, what they fought for, how did they form their minds and what they wanted to achieve and what they caused. The film gives a good overview of this.
