Paradies, Eine Imperialistische Tragikomodie - Paradise, An Imperialist Tragicomedy (1976)

1976, Germany, 9o min, 16mm, color, 

written and directed by: Zelimir Zilnik 
camera: Andrej Popovic 
music: Pedja Vranesevic & Sparifankel 

production: Alligator film 

cast: Michael Straleck, Dan van Husen, Gisela Siebauer, Natasa Stanojevic, Filiz Jakub

The multinational company owned by Mrs. Judith Angst faces financial difficulties. Therefore she decides to hire a group of young anarchists to "kidnap" her. After a few weeks spent with them, she could be able to vindicate both the machinations and the downfall of her company to the public, and also present herself as an opponent to destruction and chaos.
The film was inspired by the situation in Germany at the beginning of the seventies, especially by the case of right-wing Berlin politician Peter Lorenz. Lorenz spent two weeks "incarcerated" by "Rote Arme Fraktion," managed to escape and make out of it  pre-election campaign to his own benefit.
 Having been shot by the end of 1975 and the beginning of 1976, film ends in May 1976, in days of  hysteria culminating with  several assassinations by German urban guerrilla, hijack and sudden, never fully clarified deaths of Andreas Bader and Ulrike Meinhoff.
 The screenings of the film stopped and  Zilnik is forced to leave Germany immediately because his papers proved "invalid". It is only twenty-one years later, in October 1997, that this film is shown on the retrospective "Deutschland im Herbst" in the Munich Film Museum.