In order to attend a preview screening this week of Baader Meinhof, journalists had to sign a contract with terms that, despite both companies’ protestations, can only be described as unprecedented. The film opens on September 25; if a journalist writes about the movie or even speaksabout it with a third party - friends, colleagues, what have you - before September 17, a fine will be imposed: 100,000 euros, to be split between the journalist’s employer and the journalist him/herself - personally. 50K each.
Questionable approach to publicity, but I’m still intrigued as I spent (at least what seemed at the time to be) a large part of my last year at high-school researching and writing a report for my German A-Level coursework (in German) on the activities of the Baader Meinhof gang. There’s a trailer available, but no indication I can find of whether it will be released here. Hopefully there’ll be subtitles, as my German is more than a little rusty.
You’ll probably hear about this again.
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