The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008)
Rating: 7.0/10
Duration: 149 min
Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller, Action, History,
Director(s): Uli Edel,
Description:
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.
Cast
- Sebastian Blomberg as Rudi Dutschke
- Moritz Bleibtreu as Andreas Baader
- Vinzenz Kiefer as Peter-Jürgen Boock
- Alexandra Maria Lara as Petra Schelm
- Bruno Ganz as Horst Herold
- Heino Ferch as Herolds Assistent
- Stipe Erceg as Holger Meins
- Johanna Wokalek as Gudrun Ensslin
- Martina Gedeck as Ulrike Meinhof
- Jan Josef Liefers as Peter Homann
- Niels-Bruno Schmidt as Jan Karl Raspe
- Hannah Herzsprung as Susanne Albrecht
- Nadja Uhl as Brigitte Mohnhaupt
- Simon Licht as Horst Mahler
- Daniel Lommatzsch as Christian Klar