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The Baader Meinhof Complex
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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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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Cast
Martina GedeckUlrike Meinhof
Moritz BleibtreuAndreas Baader
Johanna WokalekGudrun Ensslin
Nadja UhlBrigitte Mohnhaupt
Stipe ErcegHolger Meins
Niels-Bruno SchmidtJan Karl Raspe
Vinzenz KieferPeter-Jürgen Boock
Simon LichtHorst MahlerCredits
- Directed by
- Uli Edel
- Written by
- Bernd Eichinger, Uli Edel, Stefan Aust
Production details
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- German
- Original title
- Der Baader Meinhof Komplex
- Budget
- $19.7M
- Box office
- $26.9M
Production
- G.T. Film Production
ARD DegetoGermany
NDRGermany- Dune FilmsMorocco
WDRGermany
BRGermany
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