Andreas Baader starts out as a small-time criminal. In Berlin, he is recruited by a revolutionary cell. They plan to overthrow the state.
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Can Taylanlar | ... | Mario (as Chan Taylanlar) |
| Frank Giering | ... | Andreas Baader | |
| Laura Tonke | ... | Gudrun Ensslin | |
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Hinnerk Schönemann | ... | Victor |
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Sarah Riedel | ... | Inga |
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Angie Ojciec | ... | Claudia (as Angie Ojciek) |
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Bastian Trost | ... | Jan |
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Sebastian Weberstein | ... | Erwin |
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Ludger Blanke | ... | Polizist |
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Birge Schade | ... | Ulrike Meinhof |
| Wolfgang Riehm | ... | Tagesschausprecher | |
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Wolfgang Ritter | ... | Vollzugsbeamter |
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Ellen Schlootz | ... | Maria |
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Andreas Hofer | ... | Ziebland |
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Rudi Knauss | ... | SPD Bezirksvorsitzender |
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Andreas Baader starts out as a small-time criminal. In Berlin, he is recruited by a revolutionary cell. They plan to overthrow the state.
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red army faction | reference to the ten commandments | surname as title | leftist | left wing politics |Certificate:
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Release Date:
17 October 2002 (Germany) See more »Also Known As:
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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.