 The clownish security chief of a West German business is obsessed with protecting his factory from fancied and real breaches, especially from groups such as The Red Army Faction. Ferdinand s paranoia and methods can t be contained by his company. The sympathetically-drawn Ferdinand s ludicrous actions recall those of the cynical, disastrous axis between fascism and big business in 1930 s Europe. Highly controversial, biting satire of the rise of private security, from Alexander Kluge, the theoretical father of the New German Cinema, set during the mid-1970 s when the left-wing underground and powerful corporations dragged a prosperous, liberal West Germany in separate directions.