Dead Pool
Docudrama in two parts, based on the abduction of the president of the employer's association of Germany, Hanns Martin Schleyer, by the Baader-Meinhof gang in the Autumn of '77.
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Seasons & Episodes
1. People's Prison
The first part describes the kidnapping of Schleyer, the first decisions and countermeasures in Bonn, the manhunt for the hijackers and the psychological drama between Schleyer and the RAF terrorists guarding him. It ends with the news of the hijacking of the Lufthansa plane "Landshut", the escalation of the crisis.
2. Hijack the Landshut
The second part tells of the inferno in the hijacked plane, of the negotiations between the Federal Criminal Police Office and the Stammheim prisoners for their alleged release into a foreign country. It ends with the collective suicide in the high-security wing of Stammheim and the shooting of Schleyer, who had hoped that the hijacking of the plane might give his fate another turn.
Cast
Sebastian Koch
Andreas Baader
Karoline Eichhorn
Brigitte Monhaupt
Manfred Zapatka
Helmut Schmidt
Dieter Mann
BKA-Präsident Horst Herold
Claudia Michelsen
Sieglinde Hofmann
Ulrich Matthes
Jan-Carl Raspe
Hans-Jörg Assmann
Alfred Klaus
Robert Viktor Minich
Jürgen Boock
Birol Ünel
Zohair Y. Akache aka 'Captain Mahmoud'
Hans Brenner
Hans-Martin Schleyer