The quiet joy of the Mescalero Buback
A film by Reinhild Dettmer-Finke and Hans Sternsdorff
1993, 45 min., NDR
In April, 1977, the Attorney General, Siegfried Buback was shot. A student newspaper sets off a political scandal when an obituary signed with the name "Mescalero" expresses a quiet satisfaction about the assassination.
Crew
Camera: Manfred Erismann
Editor: Yvonne Hilke
Commissioning Editor: Hannelore Schäfer
Press comments
Illuminating! The filmmakers have copiously retraced the events which in retrospect seem to be hyped.
Hannoversche Allgemeine