The Raspberry Reich


The Raspberry Reich is a 2004 film by director Bruce LaBruce which explores what LaBruce calls terrorist chic, cult dynamics, and the innate radical potential of homosexual expression. It is about a contemporary terrorist group who set out to continue the work of the Red Army Faction RAF, also known as the BaaderMeinhof Gang. The group consists of several young men, and a female leader named Gudrun after Gudrun Ensslin. All of the characters are named after original members of the BaaderMeinhof Gang or revolutionaries such as Che Guevara.

The core plot begins with the kidnapping of Patrick, the son of a wealthy industrialist. Sexual and romantic engtanglements push the drama forward. At the films climax, Gudrun delivers a soliloquy on the importance of personal life in revolution. She puts particular emphasis on the breaking of heterosexual and possessive sexual norms, urging her comrades to join The Homosexual Intifada.The pressure of Gudruns controlling personality causes the group to break up. Most of the urban guerrillas escape into the night. In the dnouement, the characters are visited some time later. Several have found happiness in the homosexual relationships established during their revolutionary activities. Che has become a terrorist trainer in the Middle East. Patrick escapes with Clyde, where they embark on a spree of bank robberies. This action is reminiscent of Patty Hearsts actions with the SLA. Gudrun and Holger settle down and have a child named Ulrike after Ulrike Meinhof, whom Gudrun believes could embody the next generation of the Red Army Faction. ........

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