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Production Companies
Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München
Das Celler Loch
Overview
On July 24, 1978, a bomb blasted a hole in the outer wall of a prison in Celle, Germany. The attack was blamed on the Red Army Faction. Years later, in April 1986, the true background was revealed. The attack had been staged with the complicity of Lower Saxony's domestic intelligence service, the GSG 9 and high-ranking government officials. The result was the expansion of anti-terror measures to protect citizens. The documentary tries to get to the bottom of the affair, and at the same time asks whether this action is not just the tip of an iceberg, whether much more was not initiated to stir up public sentiment.
Key Crew
Director: Herbert Linkesch
Writer: Rudi Reinbold
Director of Photography: Tom Fährmann, Dominikus Probst, Thomas Post
Producer: Rudi Reinbold
Top Cast
Ernst Albrecht
Self (archive footage)
Jürgen Trittin
Self
Friedrich Zimmermann
Self
Paul Kühling
Self
Wolf Schneider
Self (archive footage)
Heiner Geißler
Self (archive footage)
Peter Frisch
Self
Christian Lochte
Self
