the press is capable of the best and the worstconducting investigations that overthrow corrupt governments or infamy, such as interview terrorists. And we’ve seen both examples. But the truth is that even though the terrorist was not interrogated during the attack, it would be something completely unimaginable. And yet it also happened, especially in Germany in August 1988.
Two criminals, Hans-Jürgen Rösner and Dieter Degowski, entered the Deutsche Bank branch town of Gladbeck and taking two employees as hostages. BUT kidnapping that lasted 54 hours and where truly surreal situations have been experienced, if not offensively, for example, to see laughing journalists with kidnappers.
Netflix just released a very interesting documentary called Gladbeck: A Hostage Drama where only shows real pictures and sounds. There is no voice-over, no a posteriori evidence where the protagonists can “beautify” reality, only images and sounds from the media, as well as from the German police, recorded during these endless hours.
It’s hard to imagine how a two-hostage robbery could last so long, up to 54 hours, but what’s even more amazing is that it happened in space, as the perpetrators, including the hostages, traveled from downtown. north (Bremen) and then south (Cologne), while passing through Dutch soil.
One of the requirements for leaving the department, in addition to money, was a car in which they left with two hostages. In a futile operation by the German police, the kidnappers they ended up hijacking a city bus with more than 20 people on it. inside. They were even joined by a third kidnapper.
The bus began to surround onlookers, and the police did not cordon off the area. So much so that a journalist even came up to the bus to calmly talk to the kidnappers. The leader came to get rid of at different times, giving interviews and having fun with cigarettes, which were even lit, with the press. All nonsense.
At the same time, showing unimaginable cruelty, as pull a girl by the hair and put a gun to her head list his new demands, including leaving in a car “without microphones” and with police officers in shorts with handcuffed hands behind their backs.
In an incomprehensible way, they started the bus, changing cities, driving into a traffic jam on the highway due to the large number of cars of journalists who followed them. Even after he showed his extreme cruelty, how kill the hostagejournalists continued to talk to them calmly.
They started the bus again and after many ups and downs, as if changing into a car with two hostages on board, they arrived in Cologne. The most surreal moments were lived there. They stopped the car in the central and pedestrian zone. BUT a crowd of onlookers, and again the press, surrounded the car while the kidnappers aimed at the heads of the hostages.
But they did not surround the car, keeping their distance, and the journalists stuck their microphones and camera lenses through the lowered windows, while the curious leaned right on the roof of the car to talk to the kidnappers. And knowing all this, because every minute they said on TV that they had already killed one of the hostages.
The end of the story, in addition to many ins and outs, can be seen in Netflixno doubt a very good option to make sure that not everything comes in exchange for an audience.
Other platform releases
Claw – Netflix
Stanley is famous basketball scout who has low hours in his professional career. During his stay in Spain meets Bo Cruz, a talented player with a somewhat difficult past, who lives on the outskirts of Madrid. Against all odds, Stanley unknowingly finds his a great opportunity to return to Los Angeles and return to the NBA. To do this, he will try to train his new talent so that he can achieve what they both hope for.
Freaks – Movistar+
Six David di Donatello awards, the Audience Award at the Rotterdam Festival and several awards at the Venice Festival have won this award. mixture of historical drama and fantasy thrillera gripping story about being “different” set in Nazi Rome.
in Rome 1943four “fair freaks” (a man covered in hair, an electric girl, a man suffering from dwarfism, and a boy who can control insects) meet lost and defenseless in the city occupied by the Nazi army after the disappearance of Israel, the owner of the circus in which they lived as a strange family.
Travel – Movistar +
Exciting and gentle the adventures of four children fleeing the Nazi army. A family story of friendship and loyalty that marks the feature directorial debut of Johanna Helgeland and proves that the greatest courage can be found in the heart of the smallest child.
The action takes place in December 1942. occupied norway Nazis, Travesia tells the story of little Gerda and Otto, who, after the arrest of his parents for participating in the resistance, discover hiding in the basement of his house two Jewish children: Sarah and Daniel. Now Gerda and Otto must continue the work of their parents and help Sarah and Daniel escape the Nazis and reach neutral Sweden, where Jewish children can be reunited with their families.
The film, based on the novel Over grensen by Norwegian writer Maja Lunde, won the Young Audience Award at the European Film Awards 2021.
