| Children of the Revolution | |
| Director: | Shane O'Sullivan |
| Producer: | Shane O'Sullivan |
| Starring: | Ulrike Meinhof Fusako Shigenobu Mei Shigenobu Bettina Röhl Astrid Proll Masao Adachi Klaus Rainer Röhl Leila Khaled Bassam Abu Sharif Erika Runge Takaya Shiomi Kyoko Ohtani Jutta Lack-Strecker |
| Music: | Giles Packham (Waveform Studios) |
| Cinematography: | Robin Probyn Axel Schneppat Bassem Fayad |
| Editing: | Ben Yeates Fergal McGrath Shane O'Sullivan |
| Distributor: | E2 Films |
| Runtime: | 92 minutes |
| Country: | Ireland United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
Children of the Revolution is a 2010 documentary by Irish filmmaker Shane O'Sullivan about Ulrike Meinhof and Fusako Shigenobu, leaders of the German Red Army Faction and the Japanese Red Army.[1]
The film describes the experiences of Meinhof and Shigenobu through the perspective of their daughters, Mei and Bettina, and uses archive footage of student protests and guerilla training camps in Germany, Japan and the Middle East.[2]
The film premiered at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam in November 2010[3] and has screened at several international festivals.[4] It had its broadcast premiere on German channel Westdeutscher Rundfunk on 30 May 2011[5] and was released on DVD in the United Kingdom in 2011.[6] It was pitched at the 2009 Sheffield Doc/Fest MeetMarket.