Die Stille nach dem Schuss

2000
1h 43m

IMDb RATING

6.9/10

2.5K

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Drama History Romance

The riveting true story of Rita Vogt, a 1970s West German terrorist who escapes to the East with the help of the Stasi. She lives in constant fear of having her cover blown, until it unavoid... Read allThe riveting true story of Rita Vogt, a 1970s West German terrorist who escapes to the East with the help of the Stasi. She lives in constant fear of having her cover blown, until it unavoidably happens after the German re-unification.The riveting true story of Rita Vogt, a 1970s West German terrorist who escapes to the East with the help of the Stasi. She lives in constant fear of having her cover blown, until it unavoidably happens after the German re-unification.

Director
- Volker Schlöndorff
Writers
- Wolfgang Kohlhaase
- Volker Schlöndorff
Stars

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IMDb RATING

6.9/10

2.5K

YOUR RATING

Director
- Volker Schlöndorff
Writers
- Wolfgang Kohlhaase
- Volker Schlöndorff
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 4 wins & 5 nominations

Trivia
Final film of Theresia Wider.

Goofs
Rita is working in a railway vehicle factory as part of her second legend, supposedly in 1989. But in one scene, when Rita is walking across the factory yard, one can clearly see car bodies of class 481 EMUs and H-Type metro vehicles, not in production until the late 1990s.

Connections
Features My Fair Lady (1964)

Soundtracks
Street Fighting Man
Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards
Performed by The Rolling Stones

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Featured review

7/10

Good political film that could do with a better English title

'the legend of rita' is an unfortunately choice of title when compared to the German 'die stille nach dem schuss'. The film is about how members of small armed revolutionary groups come to terms with what remains of their lives ('die stille') between/after periods of action ('dem Schuss'), not principally about one person, let alone their 'legend', even if there is only one character who is continually present.

Since the group in question hides out for a period in the ddr, a number of occasions arise in which the politics of armed guerillas and that of the ddr are compared, and both appear a long way off the kind of broad participatory socialism they are often mistakenly taken to aspire to. The exchanges between the main stasi officer and rita about the role of violence and the state are particularly priceless.