Der Fall Susanne Albrecht (2017)

Accompanied by two other RAF terrorists, Susanne Albrecht gains access to the house of Jürgen Ponto, head of Dresdner Bank. He was well known to her. Jürgen Ponto was a friend of the family, her sister's godfather. The goal: Ponto should be abducted to free the top people of the RAF from prison. The plan fails: Jürgen Ponto is shot. The film shows how it came to the betrayal and how this decision has shaped the life of Susanne Albrecht - until today. A small circle of RAF terrorists put the then 26-year-old Albrecht in the summer of 1977 under massive pressure to open the door for the planned act of violence. Dr. Nahlah Saimeh, forensic psychiatrist and expert on extremism and terrorism, explains in the film how and why such radicalization processes take place.