Another film about fathers and sons-concerning the tortured link between leftist activists and their Nazi fathers-The Journey is based on the memoirs of Bernward Vesper, an activist in the Student Reform Movement of '68 and the son of Nazi poet Will Vesper. Bernward fathered a child with Gudrun Ensslin, but the two split when she went underground with the Baader-Meinhof Group, while he rejected this new turn of the Movement. (Both routes led to early death, Vesper's in a Hamburg clinic in 1971, Ensslin's in the Stammheim Prison in 1977.) The film, directed by Marcus Imhoof (The Boat Is Full) features Markus Boyson in a strong performance as Vesper's alter ego, Bertram Voss, who kidnaps his five-year-old son from out of hiding in Southern Italy rather than let the child's mother, Dagmar, take him to a PLO camp. The journey of father and son back to Germany-all the while dodging arrest and interrogation-is also a journey back through time, as Bertram recalls his own youth and the terrible distance of his father, who held onto his passion for the Aryan "cause" until his last breath; the student demonstrations ending in a harrowing prison lockup; his early relationship with Dagmar, and the sense of inevitable tragedy from which he would protect his own young son. "In addition to intelligence and clarity, (this) film is blessed with excellent lensing and skillful storytelling that make it absorbing to the end.... One of the most serious attempts to deal in depth with the theme of terrorism" (Variety).