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Overview

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Director:
Uli Edel
Writers:
Stefan Aust (book)
Uli Edel (collaboration)
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Release Date:
25 September 2008 (Germany) more
Plot:
A look at Germany's terrorist group, The Red Army Faction (RAF), which organized bombings, robberies, kidnappings and assassinations in the late 1960s and '70s. Based on Stefan Aust's best-selling nonfiction book. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 2 wins & 6 nominations more
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Mixed emotions more

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Baader Meinhof Complex (International: English title) (UK) (USA)
La bande à Baader (France)
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Runtime:
150 min | Germany:180 min (approx.) (TV version)
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital

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Trivia:
Ex-terrorist Brigitte Mohnhaupt, who was released on probation in the spring of 2008 after 24 years in jail, took the production company Constantin to court for the sex scene, demanding that it be deleted. A Hamburg court dismissed the suit in December 2008. more
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Continuity: The German Border Police used in 1972 the helicopter type Bell Uh-1D (as shown in the movie and the documentary footage). But the scene of the explosion shows a Bell 222 (known also from "Air-Wolf). The first flight of a Bell "Tripple Two" was August 13, 1976; the production started in 1978. Further the Bell 222 has a landing gear and two engines, the Bell UH-1D a landing skid and one engine. more
Quotes:
Brigitte Mohnhaupt: Stop seeing them the way they weren't. more
Movie Connections:
Featured in "De wereld draait door: (#4.56)" (2008) more
Soundtrack:
Child in Time more

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26 out of 35 people found the following comment useful:-
Mixed emotions, 29 September 2008
7/10
Author: CKDexter-4 from Trier, Germany

The movie of Edel and Eichinger is fine when it comes to sets and costumes. It seems to catch the mood of the late Sixties and Seventies very well. Also the lead actors Bleibtreu, Wokalek and Gedeck have delivered outstanding performances. Too bad, that they don't get a chance to really explore their characters: Too much else is going on in this movie, that completely loses its focus during the last hour. The closer we get to the end, the more it resembles a documentary with a few scenes of play cut in now and then.

The viewer is presented with a lot of facts - and violence - but the movie fails in decoding the often cited "myth" of the RAF. For example, I've always wondered, whether Baader was just a criminal or really politically motivated. Well, in the first half of the movie, Baader is portrayed as an outlaw, who enjoys provocation and fast cars. Later he delivers sophisticated political statements. A good movie should at least try to explain this development. DER BAADER MEINHOF KOMPLEX doesn't.

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