The Irish/German/British co-production ‘Children of the Revolution’ to be released in the UK tomorrow August 26th. Feature length documentary ‘Children of the Revolution’ will also be released on DVD/VOD on September 5th.
Directed and produced by London based Irish filmmaker Shane O’Sullivan (RFK Must Die: The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy), the film tells the stories of Ulrike Meinhof and Fusako Shigenobu, two women who emerged from the student revolutions of 1968 to become the leading female revolutionaries of their time. Appalled by the killing in Vietnam, they worked with Palestinian freedom fighters to destroy capitalist power through world revolution, as leaders of the Baader Meinhof Group and the Japanese Red Army.
The film was shot in Tokyo, Beirut, Jordan and Germany and is a co-production between Transmission Films, the Irish Film Board and German broadcaster WDR. The film uses archive footage and follows journalists Bettina Röhl and May Shigenobu as they explore the lives of their mothers Ulrike and Fusako.
The documentary has its broadcast premiere on German Channel Westdeutscher Rundfunk on May 30, 2011. The film is being distributed in the UK by e2 Films and will be shown at the Shortwave Cinema in London. The DVD is available for pre-order online at HMV, Amazon and all usual outlets.
The trailer for ‘Children of the Revolution’ can been seen here.
