Starbuck Holger Meins
Starbuck, that was the code name of the German terrorist Holger Meins. Holger Meins was the first Red Army Faction member to die in custody in prison on hunger strike in 1974. He was 33 years old. 25 years after his death, Gerd Conradt, filmmaker and friend, sets off searching for the trail of the helmsman of the Baader-Meinhof Group. What made him go underground? Which circumstances caused his death, a death transforming him into the declared symbol of radical resistance? A whole range of companions give information about this path through this tragic chapter of German history with the help from the widest variety of documents of the times.
Directed by Gerd Conradt
Written by Gerd Conradt, Hartmut Jahn
Starring Michael Ballhaus, Suzanne Beyeler, Manfred Blessmann
Music by Lars Loehn