Director: David Aronowitsch (SW)
Genre: Documentary
Sweden, 2003 / 58 min (DVCam and 16mm)
b/w, colour & sound

The Film
In April 1975, Commando Holger Meins occupies the West German Embassy in Stockholm. They want to force the release of RAF prisoners in Germany, including Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof, Gudrun Ensslin. The occupation lasts twelve hours and ends in defeat for the occupants. Left is a blown up Embassy and four people dead, two of them executed by the occupants. Karl-Heinz Dellwo is arrested and sentenced to jail. He is 23 years old. Twenty years later, in 1995, he is released from prison. Today he lives in Hamburg with his girlfriend Ella, also a former terrorist, or activist, as she rather calls herself. He works as a manager in a small software-company. Karl-Heinz has succeeded in creating a new life for himself, but he will always be aunted by his violent past.

David Aronowitsch
David Aronowitsch (b. 1964) has worked with documentary films the last ten years. He studied film directing 1988-1992 at the polish National Film School in Lodz. He has done shorter and longer documentary films for the Swedish Film Institute and The Swedish public service television company (SVT). He has also worked as producer for the television series Ikon for SVT. He is co-owner of the production company Story AB. Recently he has done the short animated documentary Hidden with Hannah Heilborn and Mats Johansson. It has been awarded with several prizes, Best International Short in Hot Docs, Canadian International Documentary Festival and Fajr International Film Festival in Iran. It also got honorary mention at Nordic Panorama 2002.