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Overview

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7.4/10   5,094 votes
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Director:
Uli Edel
Writers:
Stefan Aust (book)
Uli Edel (collaboration)
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Release Date:
25 September 2008 (Germany) more
Plot:
A look at Germany's terrorist group, The Red Army Faction (RAF), which organized bombings, robberies, kidnappings and assassinations in the late 1960s and '70s. Based on Stefan Aust's best-selling nonfiction book. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 2 wins & 6 nominations more
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(18 articles)
DVD Review: Der Baader Meinhof Komplex (UK, R2)
 (From Twitch. 17 May 2009, 6:54 PM, PDT)

No 'Departures' for Academy
 (From ioncinema. 23 February 2009)

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Clear, honest, simple, radiant; one of the best political films I've seen more

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Also Known As:
The Baader Meinhof Complex (International: English title) (UK) (USA)
La bande à Baader (France)
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Runtime:
150 min | Germany:180 min (approx.) (TV version)
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital

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Ex-terrorist Brigitte Mohnhaupt, who was released on probation in the spring of 2008 after 24 years in jail, took the production company Constantin to court for the sex scene, demanding that it be deleted. A Hamburg court dismissed the suit in December 2008. more
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Anachronisms: The barbed wire around Stammheim Prison is of a modern type with blades rather than barbs. more
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Brigitte Mohnhaupt: Stop seeing them the way they weren't. more
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Child in Time more

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20 out of 28 people found the following comment useful:-
Clear, honest, simple, radiant; one of the best political films I've seen, 16 November 2008
8/10
Author: Niklas Pivic from Stockholm, Sweden

Brilliant film about the Baader-Meinhof group, i.e. one of the most active modern terrorist groups. The film starts with showing people peacefully demonstrating against the Shah of Iran and his wife who were visiting Western Germany in the late 60s; on signal, supporters of the Shah and the police rush and senselessly beat demonstrators into pulp. The imagery is one that will not soon leave my mind, being extremely reminiscent of what happened in the G8 protests at Genoa and Gothenburg about 30 years later. Back to the film: the leftist movement is at this time very much against the police state that Western Germany has become. As the hippie 60s obviously didn't help much with turning things around, the early 70s - brought on by with the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy, the US carrying on their war in Vietnam with Nixon coming into power and the West German government was being accused for merely being a puppet in the hands of imperialist America, some people wanted to turn things around without using flowers and kind words. These people were seriously convinced that the word was revolution, and used kidnapping, bombs and bullets for change. This film is the story of the core of the Baader-Meinhof group, and it's close to the best political cinema I've ever seen; the direction, the acting, the script, the editing and the music...it's as if the make-up is washed away from how political films usually are, leaving the viewer to decide what's right and wrong. It's interesting to see how the Baader-Meinhof group works as the members are increasingly isolated and brain-wash each other by simply interacting with their hardcore ideals as the base. Brilliant and highly recommendable, of course no matter what your personal political ideas are.

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