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2001 documentary film

Black Box BRD
German release theatrical poster
Directed by	Andres Veiel
Written by	Andres Veiel
Produced by	Pepe Danquart Erich Lackner Mirjam Quinte Thomas Kufus
Cinematography	Jörg Jeshel
Edited by	Katja Dringenberg
Music by	Jan Tilman Schade
Distributed by	Warner Home Video
Release date	24 May 2001 (2001-05-24) (Germany)
Running time	102 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

Black Box BRD is a 2001 German documentary film written and directed by Andres Veiel. The film deals with West German politics of the 1970s and 1980s, a period marked by turmoil and the highly publicized activities of the left-wing terrorist group known as the Red Army Faction (RAF).

The film focuses on the lives and deaths of Alfred Herrhausen, a prominent banker and chairman of the Deutsche Bank who was assassinated in 1989, and Wolfgang Grams, member of RAF who was a suspect in the attack on Herrhausen and who later shot himself in the head while being chased by the German police in 1993. A number of relatives, friends, and colleagues of both men were interviewed for the film.

In Germany the film was released in May 2001, and then re-released in September 2002. It was screened at a number of festivals and won several awards in 2001 and 2002, including the 2002 German Film Award for Best Documentary Film and the 2001 European Film Award.

In the United States the film was shown on PBS, retitled as Black Box Germany.

Awards

Year	Awarding Body	Award	Nominee	Result
2001	European Film Awards	Best Documentary	Andres Veiel	Won
2002	Bavarian Film Awards	Best Documentary	Andres Veiel	Won
2002	German Film Awards	Best Documentary	Zero Film GmbH	Won

References

McMadden, Connor. "Black Box BRD". Allmovie. Retrieved 7 March 2011.
"Awards for Black Box BRD". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 7 March 2011.

External links

Official website (in German)
Black Box BRD at IMDb

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European Film Award for Best Documentary

Recsk 1950-1953: The Story Of A Secret Concentration Camp In Communist Hungary (1989)
The Crossroad (1990)
Hear My Cry (1991)
Earth of the Blind (1992)
Misfits To Yuppies (1993)
Angels of Sarajevo (1994)
Viva Stalin (1995)
Vendetta - Blood Revenge in Albania (1996)
Gigi, Monica... et Bianca (1997)
Tableau avec chutes (1998)
Buena Vista Social Club (1999)
The Gleaners and I (2000)
Black Box BRD (2001)
To Be and to Have (2002)
S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (2003)
Darwin's Nightmare (2004)
The Pipeline Next Door (2005)
Into Great Silence (2006)
Paper Cannot Wrap Up Embers (2007)
René (2008)
The Sound of Insects – Records of a Mummy (2009)
Nostalgia for the Light (2010)
Pina (2011)
Winter Nomad (2012)
The Act of Killing (2013)
Master of the Universe (2014)
Amy (2015)
Fire at Sea (2016)
Communion (2017)
Bergman: A Year in a Life (2018)
For Sama (2019)
Collective (2020)
Flee (2021)
Mariupolis 2 (2022)
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood (2023)
No Other Land (2024)

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