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The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008)

The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008)

Action Drama Crime Thriller History
Release Date: 2008, September 25
Directors: Uli Edel
Countries: Czech Republic, Germany, France
Production: G.T. Film Production, ARD Degeto, NDR, Dune Films, WDR, BR, Constantin Film, Nouvelles Éditions de Films
Cast: Alexandra Maria Lara, Alexander Held, Joachim Paul Assböck, Heino Ferch, Rainer Reiners, Hannes Wegener, Moritz Bleibtreu, Sebastian Blomberg, Vinzenz Kiefer, Michael Schenk, Bruno Ganz, Hannah Herzsprung

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

suicide terrorism prison escape 1970s terrorist plot trial escape from prison government cover-up government conspiracy hostage-taking criminal trial leftist radicalism baader-meinhof gruppe