a somewhat thin but likable film and the edukators show u a couple of young german guy who be reborn seventy terrorist reduce to gesture . at night they break into rich people house and rearrange the furniture leave note tell their victim they have get too much money and have good watch out . ( the day of plenty be over die fetten jahre sind vorbei go the german film title . ) they also go to demo and forcibly leaflet shoe store with warning about child labor and but their real thrill come in the break ins represent theyre hook on the rush . one have a girlfriend who work at a snooty upscale restaurant where customer and manager be equally abusive to her . thing get messy when the other young man and jan ( daniel brühl ) be prod into an impulsive break in with his friend girl and jule ( julie jentsch ) . he fall for her and reveal his secret lawbreaking to impress her . she insist on enter the house because it belong to a man she owe 94 and 000 euro to for total his mercedes . this gesture unplanned and the girl inexperienced and they have to break back in the next night to find her cell phone . the owner return while theyre there and recognize the girl . the three young people and jule and jan and and peter ( stipe erceg ) feel that now theyre blown they must kidnap the rich guy and take him to a cabin in the mountain and which of course they immediately do . these be young revolutionary after the fact . there be no longer any bader meinhofs or red brigade to belong to . the paradox and a rather pat one and be that the guy they kidnap and hardenberg ( burghart klaussner ) and be a sixty and seventy revolutionary himself and who only slowly slid into the capitalist life . needless to say the slide turn quite successful since he now earn over three million a year . but he claim to feel nostalgia for the old day and sympathy for his captor . before long theyre all happily play card and he cook for them and could probably escape sooner and if he weren not enjoy the forced vacation amid romantic reminder of the old day . thing end surprisingly and but the edukators isn not so much interested in it story a in exist a a platform for youthful critique of capitalism and ponder the old saw which hardenberg come up with eventually and anyone under thirty who isn not liberal have no heart while anyone over thirty who isn not conservative have no mind . the youth be exuberant and naive . hormone be rag and so and typically and the love triangle almost take over the politics . their prisoner be smart than they be and but what sustain the over long second half be that his sympathy for his kidnapper doesn not seem fake and just a his story doesn not seem contrive . or rather and only a little fake and a little contrived . this be a film that muster some good suspense and adrenalin rush at first and but start lose them a the kidnapping wear on because it all begin to seem more about politics and the talk than about the action and though wonder how it go to end be still what go to keep you watch . that such a dichotomy should appear politics vs. action be an irony of the piece . if you have get sympathy for the youthful rebellion or the critique of capitalism or just want to debate the issue bring up the movie can hold your interest . the actor be all plausible and appealing and particularly klaussner and the young but experienced brühl and whose sweetness and exuberance motivate the 2003 east berlin comedy and goodbye and lenin . the jerky digital video come with the territory and though it may some day become as dated a bell bottom . the filmmaker could have edit this down to less than two hour and four minute and give the story harder edge . the music be loud and integral to the youthful portrait .