The Legend of Rita


Die Stille nach dem Schu or The Silence after the Shot is a 2000 German film that was released in English as The Legend of Rita. The film focuses on collusion between the East German secret police, or Stasi, and the West German terrorist group Red Army Faction RAF. The fictional characters all have close parallels to reallife RAF members.

Hull arranges a safe house for the fugitives and secretly trains them in the use of military hardware. As Rita watches her comrades training in the use of Rocketpropelled grenades, she is visibly horrified.That evening, Hull boasts that the RAF has to break laws we can make them. He explains that those who wish to retire from armed struggle will be given new identities so that they can start a new life in the GDR. The groups two women, Friederike Adebach Jenny Schilli and Rita, accept the offer, much to the shock and horror of the men. ........

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