The Baader Meinhof Complex

7

Germany

Action Crime Drama History Thriller

149 min

2008

Johanna Bönninghaus Martin Glade Christian Näthe Peter Schneider Christian Blümel Britta Hammelstein Andreas Tobias Johannes Suhm Hannes Wegener Sandra Borgmann Annika Kuhl Nina Eichinger Sunnyi Melles Hans Peter Hallwachs Esther Seibt Rainer Reiners Bettina Lohmeyer Ralph Kretschmar Kirsten Block Wolfgang Pregler Jona Mues Michael Schenk Samir Fuchs Joachim Paul Assböck Bernd Stegemann Alexander Held Hubert Mulzer Heino Ferch Bruno Ganz Alexandra Maria Lara Simon Licht Vinzenz Kiefer Niels-Bruno Schmidt Stipe Erceg Nadja Uhl Johanna Wokalek Moritz Bleibtreu Daniel Lommatzsch Sebastian Blomberg Jan Josef Liefers Michael Gwisdek Susanne Bormann Thomas Thieme Jasmin Tabatabai Volker Bruch Anna Thalbach Katharina Wackernagel Hans-Werner Meyer Tom Schilling Hannah Herzsprung Martina Gedeck

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.