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Director:
Christopher Roth
Writers:
Christopher Roth and
Moritz von Uslar
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Release Date:
17 October 2002 (Germany) See more »
Genre:
Biography | Crime | Drama | Thriller See more »
Plot Keywords:
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Awards:
1 win & 3 nominations See more »
NewsDesk:
German actor Frank Giering dies at 38
 (From The Hollywood Reporter. 24 June 2010, 7:00 AM, PDT)
User Reviews:
Disappointing! See more (8 total) »

Cast

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Can Taylanlar ... Mario (as Chan Taylanlar)
Frank Giering ... Andreas Baader
Laura Tonke ... Gudrun Ensslin
Hinnerk Schönemann ... Victor
Sarah Riedel ... Inga
Angie Ojciec ... Claudia (as Angie Ojciek)
Bastian Trost ... Jan
Sebastian Weberstein ... Erwin
Ludger Blanke ... Polizist
Birge Schade ... Ulrike Meinhof
Wolfgang Riehm ... Tagesschausprecher
Wolfgang Ritter ... Vollzugsbeamter
Ellen Schlootz ... Maria
Andreas Hofer ... Ziebland
Rudi Knauss ... SPD Bezirksvorsitzender
Vadim Glowna ... Kurt Krone
Attila Saygel ... Gudruns Mann
Marion Levi ... Mädchen in Bar

Daniel Krauss ... Diedrich
Oliver Krönke ... Seidlein
Michael Sideris ... Kurt Wagner
Volkert Matzen ... Richter
Axel John Wieder ... Rechtsanwalt
Jesko Fezer ... Rechtsanwalt
Thilo Wermke ... Rechtsanwalt
Martin Rauhaus ... Apotheker
Peter Hausmann ... Carlo Friedrich
Eric P. Caspar ... Innenminister
Thomas Frey ... Kanzleramtsminister
Dieter Wardetzky ... Staatssekretär (as Dieter Wardezky)
Peter Rühring ... Pastor
Bettina Hoppe ... Birgit
Holger Krabel ... Polizist
Anna Böttcher ... Marion
Joachim Trefz ... Institutsleiter
Uwe Steinbruch ... Justizbeamter
Johannes Schmidt ... Justizbeamter
Karl-Günther Garbisch ... Gefängniswärter
Hadj Belhecene ... Achmed
Moritz von Uslar ... Wolf
Hans Richter ... Autovermietung
Michael Günther ... Karl Rossmann

Jana Pallaske ... Karin
Oliver Brod ... Polizist im Zug

Zsolt Bács ... Übersetzer (as Zsolt Bàcs)
John Yamoah ... Afrikanischer Politiker (as John E. Yamoah)
Vera Baranyai ... Lolita
Matti Braun ... Henry
Urs Fabian Winiger ... Tony
Nils Nelleßen ... Streifenpolizist
Kristian Kaiser ... Polizist Fahrzeugkontrolle
Michael Krome ... Polizist Fahrzeugkontrolle
Kaspar Eichel ... Narrator (voice)
Rainer Gerlach ... Narrator (voice)
Norbert Langer ... Narrator (voice)
Bernhard Völger ... Narrator (voice)
Helmut Krauss ... Narrator (voice)
Frank Öttrich ... Narrator (voice)
Iris Schäfer ... Narrator (voice)
Christoph Wiesner ... Narrator (voice)
Pierre-Alain de Garrigues ... Narrator (voice)
Monika Zinnenberg ... Monika (archive footage)
Dieter Geissler ... Frank Murnau (archive footage)
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Directed by
Christopher Roth 
 
Writing credits
Christopher Roth  and
Moritz von Uslar 

Produced by
Mark Egerton .... co-producer
Stephan Fruth .... producer
Mark Gläser .... producer
Christopher Roth .... producer
 
Cinematography by
Bella Halben 
Jutta Pohlmann 
 
Film Editing by
Barbara Gies 
Christopher Roth 
 
Production Design by
Oliver Kroenke 
Tobias Nolte 
Attila Saygel 
 
Costume Design by
Carmen Stahlhoven 
 
Makeup Department
Daniel Schröder .... makeup artist
 
Production Management
Bernd Gedeck .... unit manager
Christoph Renger .... unit manager
Johannes Rexin .... production manager
Oliver Röpke .... unit manager
 
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Barbara Gies .... assistant director
Eckard von Busekist .... assistant director
 
Sound Department
Johannes Grehl .... sound recordist
Stephan Liepe .... foley recordist
Shide Makkynejad .... sound
Christoph Oertel .... foley recordist
Max Rammler-Rogall .... sound re-recording mixer
Steve Stoyke .... boom operator
Kai Tebbel .... supervising sound editor
Corinna Zink .... sound
 
Camera and Electrical Department
Antonio Belón .... second assistant camera
Teresa Benitez .... video assistant
Leah Striker .... assistant camera
 
Editorial Department
Jonathan Schmidt-Ott .... assistant editor
 
Music Department
Bob Last .... music supervisor
 
Other crew
Christoph Renger .... location manager
Antje Scholz .... set manager assistant
 

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Additional Details

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Runtime:
115 min
Country:
Germany | UK
Language:
German | English | French | Arabic
Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 See more »
Sound Mix:
Dolby SR
Certification:
Germany:12 (f) | Italy:T | Finland:K-13
Filming Locations:
Almería, Andalucía, SpainSee more »
Company:
72 FilmSee more »

Did You Know?

Goofs:
Anachronisms: In the scene where the RAF members are filming each other with a Super-8 camera on a roof-top in Paris, the camera model is a Canon 310XL. This camera wasn't introduced until August 1975, but the scene is set in 1969.See more »
Movie Connections:
Featured in "Sendung ohne Namen: Episode #1.6" (2002)See more »

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8 out of 13 people found the following review useful.
Disappointing!, 9 May 2006
Author: narrator-sn from Germany

There's no doubt this unfruitful movie cannot keep up with other famous films like "Munich", which comes up to the same genre.

The main character, Andreas Baader (former Leader of the RAF), is embodied by Frank Giering, who is without doubt a miscast. Baader used to be a charismatic, spleenish and aggressive Leader, who was far from being "Mister nice guy". The movie tries to establish a love-story between Gudrun Ensslin and Andreas Baader, which is at the beginning equatable to a stereotypic Hollywood-movie. However, the history of the RAF was less-than-harmonic as the storyline pretends: Particularly Andreas Baader as a decided aggressive person never embodied a nice guy, as Frank Giering in his role suggests, but rather a wakefully psycho, who terrorised a whole nation.

Apart from the miscast of the main character, this movie is rather fiction than part of contemporary history. In fact, Baader died in prison and committed suicide. However, this movie pretends that the Leader of the RAF died on the run, which is, without doubt, a false illustration. Fiction should never be mixed up with contemporary history, mainly if the imaginary end of this movie is twice as boring as the "true story".

In short, this movie is kind of waste. Compared with the RAF, the characters symbolize a knock-off. Furthermore, the story is too far away from the historical events, which is kind of disappointing, especially as a result of the ridiculous ending. There's neither rhyme nor reason in that.

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