Happiness Is a Warm Gun is a feature film by the Swiss director Thomas Imbach, who stages the life and death story of the lovers Petra Kelly and Gert Bastian.

Happiness Is a Warm Gun is about the murder of the green pacifist Petra Kelly, who is shot in her sleep by her life partner Gert Bastian, ex-Bundeswehr-General, before he kills himself.

Petra and Gert find themselves in the transit area of a modern airport and settle down in this artificial in-between world, trying to pick up the thread of the past - their political activity - while in their conversations what happened is fragmentary.

It makes its home inside me – that must have been the moment I briefly lifted off.‘ Likewise, the images of Thomas Imbach‘s film seem to thrust aside everything you thought you knew about this historic and mythical couple.

In his typically detailed shots, which draw attention to things that are normally taken so much for granted that they go unnoticed, he marvels at Petra’s lips, the hollow at the bottom of her neck, her gentleness as she carefully and silently washes the exhausted Gert who stands naked before her.

"[7] "In a brilliant montage, Imbach extends the lives of Kelly and Bastian to the present day, virtually bombarding his audience with images and sounds... Cinema in the best sense of the word, which teaches you to see and hear.