The Baader Meinhof Complex

2008 · 149 min · DE · R · 7.0 (676 votes)

Dir. Uli Edel · Starring Martina Gedeck, Moritz Bleibtreu, Johanna Wokalek, Nadja Uhl, Stipe Erceg, Niels-Bruno Schmidt · Music Peter Hinderthür

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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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A visceral plunge into 1970s radicalism. It feels like a historical fever dream, capturing the escalating tension and ideological fervor of a generation pushed to violent extremes. The film is a relentless, often unsettling, look at revolutionary fervor.

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