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The Baader Meinhof Complex

2008 · Film · 149 min

  • Action
  • Crime
  • Drama
  • History
  • Thriller

Plot

When German police viciously quell a protest against the shah of Iran, popular journalist Ulrike Meinhof rebels against her dishonest marriage, walks away from her children and joins radical anarchist Andreas Baader. Together with Baader's girlfriend, Gudrun Ensslin, they form the violent Red Faction Army, and together perpetrate a slew of terrorist attacks as a way of disrupting the fabric of what they see as an increasingly fascist state.

About The Baader Meinhof Complex

The Baader Meinhof Complex (German: Der Baader Meinhof Komplex [deːɐ̯ ˈbaːdɐ ˈmaɪnhɔf kɔmˈplɛks] ) is a 2008 German historical thriller film directed by Uli Edel. Written and produced by Bernd Eichinger, it stars Moritz Bleibtreu, Martina Gedeck and Johanna Wokalek. The film is based on the 1985 German best selling non-fiction book of the same name by Stefan Aust. It retells the story of the early years of the West German far-left terrorist organisation the Rote Armee Fraktion (Red Army Fraction, or Red Army Faction, a.k.a. RAF) from 1967 to 1977. The film was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 81st Academy Awards. It was also nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 66th Golden Globe Awards and for Best Film Not in the English Language at the 62nd British Academy Film Awards.

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Cast

  • Martina GedeckUlrike Meinhof
  • Moritz BleibtreuAndreas Baader
  • Johanna WokalekGudrun Ensslin
  • Nadja UhlBrigitte Mohnhaupt
  • Stipe ErcegHolger Meins
  • Niels-Bruno SchmidtJan Karl Raspe
  • Vinzenz KieferPeter-Jürgen Boock
  • Simon LichtHorst Mahler
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