BAADER-MEINHOF: IN LOVE WITH TERROR (2002) **1/2 Ben Lewis does an excellent job, given the inherent time limitations of film paid for by BBC, of tracing the dynamic of how a revolutionary/terrorist group broke out of the peace movement (“It's definitely because the cops beat us up all the time,” or something like that, says Dieter Kunzelmann). Snippets of rhetoric are interwoven with esoteric rock selections and photographs of debris. The former militants appear mainly sorry that it didn't work, still oblivious to the victims. Helmut Schmidt still appears mainly frustrated that they made him look so ineffective, and appears to solve the “Death Night” murder/suicide mystery when he explains that he decided to destroy them (Nazis typically used far more opaque euphemisms for their activities), though Lewis and at least one terrorist come to a different conclusion. The segment would have benefitted from an interview with Irmgard Möller, the only Death Night survivor (who has consistently asserted murder), or at least acknowledgement of her existance. It's also difficult to justify the omission of even mention of the Socialist Patients Collective, whose doctor urged them to destroy the system that made them sick. The most metaphorical moment in the history of the group is also ommitted: when Klaus Jünschke knocks Judge Prinzing off his bench. You can get picky from there, a woman's voice-over reads lines written by Holger Meins, etc.....but the hardest part was capturing a feel of what the RAF thought they were doing, and in this Lewis demonstrates great sensitivity for the subject matter.