Background of the docu-drama "Todesspiel" by writer and director Heinrich Breloer is the culmination of the terror attacks in Germany in 1977, later the "German Autumn" called. The two-parter tells the RAF kidnapping of Hanns Martin Schleyer, President of Employer on 5 September and the abduction of the Lufthansa plane "Landshut on 13 October 1977 by a Palestinian terrorist squad.
The idea and initiative came to the film by Ulrich Lenze, a producer who could bring together some seven million dollars. Breloer used resources of the staged play, supported by original photographs and descriptions of people involved, whom he interviewed on camera. Among them are Schleyer kidnappers, crew and passengers of the "Landshut" as well as politicians such as Helmut Schmidt.
40 days was a global public to the breath. Heinrich Breloer succeeded perfectly, the real drama as exciting and emotional reconstruction of how authentic the film, and therefore it has a piece of German TV history written.
Todesspiel - Backstage:
Cast:
Hans Brenner, Claudia Michelsen, Dirk Martens, Karoline Eichhorn, Robert-Victor Minich, Dieter Mann, Manfred Zapatka, Sebastian Koch, Ulrich Matthes, Susanne Schäfer, Birol Uenel, Gerd Preusche and others
Written by: |
Heinrich Breloer |
Directed by: |
Heinrich Breloer |
Director of Photography: |
Hans-Günter Bücking |
Score: |
Hans-Peter Ströer |
Costume design: |
Christina Schnell |
Set design: |
Wolf Seesselberg |
Edited by: |
Monika Bednarz |
Production Manager: |
Richard Bolz |
Executive Producer: |
Andreas Knoblauch |
Head of Production: |
Ulrich Lenze |
TV Editor: |
Gebhard Henke (WDR), Horst Königstein (NDR) |
Produced for: |
ZDF, 1997 |
