The Baader Meinhof Complex
Der Baader Meinhof Komplex
Movie · 2008 · 149 min
- Synopsis
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.
- Synopsis
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.
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- Original title
- Der Baader Meinhof Komplex
- Year
- 2008
- Runtime
- 149 min
- Age rating
- R
- Themes
- Conspiracy, Courtroom, Kidnapping, Politics, Prison, Suicide, Terrorism
- Director
- Uli Edel
- Studio
- Constantin Film, WDR, ARD Degeto