The Legend Of Rita

A return to form — and content — for Volker Schlondorff, once a leading light of the New German Cinema, whose later films took him away from his roots in the overtly political cinema of the 1970s. Here, Schlondorff and co-writer Wolgang Kohlhaase look to Germany's recent past and the sad, violent fate of the radical Left that continues to haunt the German psyche. The film covers two decades in the life of Rita Vogt (Bibiana Beglau), a young member of a German revolutionary terrorist group loosely modeled on the notorious Baader-Meinhoff gang. Rita finds herself seeking refuge in East Germany after a series of fatal actions land her and her anti-Capitalist c...