The Baader Meinhof Complex
Der Baader Meinhof Komplex
CINEMA2008-09-25
DIGITAL2008-11-14
RegionCZ / FR
Runtime149 MIN
Media TypeMovie
PRODUCTION COMPANIES
Nexus Editorial Perspective Nexus Original
“A gripping, unsparing historical thriller tracking the rise, radicalization, and terrorist campaign of the Red Army Faction.”
Storyline
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 terroris
DIRECTOR / Director
Uli Edel
KEYWORDS
suicide1970shostage-takingtrialprison escapeterrorismterrorist plotgovernment cover-upgovernment conspiracyleftist radicalismcriminal trialescape from prisonbaader-meinhof gruppe
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