Volker Schlöndorff was very critical of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's contribution to the collective film. Alexander Kluge thought that it was the most important contribution, and that the conversation between Fassbinder and his mother, about democracy and German contemporary history, was unique.
La bande à Baader (2008) is a fictionalization of the real life events that were also the basis for Fraction armée rouge (2002), Black Box RFA (2001), Le procès Baader-Meinhof (1986), Une jeunesse allemande (2015), Starbuck Holger Meins (2002), Baader-Meinhof: In Love with Terror (2002), Andreas Baader - Der Staatsfeind (2002), Ulrike Marie Meinhof (1995), Die RAF (2007), Prisoner of Terrorism (1978), Ulrike Meinhof (2007) and were strongly related with Les années de plomb (1981), Wildentiere (1969), Gudrun Ensslin - the early years (1968), Le Quatrième Homme (2014), Der Fall Susanne Albrecht (2017), Children of the Revolution (2010), Déclaration de guerre mondiale: armée rouge, front de libération palestinien (1971), Schleyer - Eine deutsche Geschichte (2003) and present in the storylines of Schattenwelt (2008), The Worst Thing (To Germany, with Love) (2019) and Joschka und Herr Fischer (2011).