Volker Spengler, Hanna Schygulla, Udo Kier, Harry Baer
Winter 1978/79, in West Berlin. A group of young people – joined together less by their political convictions than their secretive behavior (their code word is: “the world as intention and idea”) – goes underground after the killer Paul (Raoul Gimenez), flown in from Africa, is shot by the police. On February 27, Mardi Gras, the young terrorists kidnap Peter Lurtz (Eddie Constantine) the representative of a US computer firm …