Western for the SDS

West­ern for the SDS por­trays the de­vel­op­ment of the left as a learn­ing pro­cess among wo­m­en who shar­p­en their aware­ness in the move­ment but cont­in­ue to have no say. The con­tro­ver­sy sur­round­ing the film is shown in the DFFB week­ly news­reel Re­quiem for a Com­pany. The West­ern was con­fis­cat­ed by the ad­min­is­tra­tion, and eigh­teen stu­dents who sid­ed with Straschek were ex­pelled from the acade­my. The film was considered lost until its rediscovery in 2018.

• Release date
• February 3, 1968
• Runtime
• 21 min
• Director
• Günter Peter Straschek

Cast

M

Marlies Beddies

J

Johannes Beringer

E

Elke Edelmann

L

Lore Ditzen

P

Peter Homann

P

Peter Thomas Krüger

F

Freya Raimbault

C

Christian Semler