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Shane O’Sullivan
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Producer: Shane O'Sullivan
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Documentary
This feature documentary tells the stories of Ulrike Meinhof and Fusako Shigenobu – revolutionary women who emerged from the student movements in Germany and Japan in 1968 to become leaders of the Baader Meinhof group and the Japanese Red Army. Fuelled by the killing in Vietnam, they set out to destroy capitalist power through world revolution. Their daughters Bettina Röhl and May Shigenobu explore the lives of their mothers, and describe their own extraordinary childhoods, lived in exile from their mothers. Through a wealth of archive footage and key witness testimony, the film explodes the mythology that has developed around two of the most notorious women in contemporary history. This is the second documentary feature from Irish director Shane O’Sullivan, following 2007’s RFK Must Die: The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy.
92 minutes, Ireland/UK/Germany, 2010, Colour
BALTIMORE 15.15, 20.45
JEAN EUSTACHE: THE VIRGIN OF PESSAC ‘79 18.30
MONSTER 15.35
PERFECT DAYS 13.00
ROBOT DREAMS 13.00, 18.15 (OC)
RYUICHI SAKAMOTO | OPUS 20.30
THE DELINQUENTS 12.45, 17.15
THE TASTE OF THINGS 20.20
THE ZONE OF INTEREST 16.15
The IFI is supported by The Arts Council