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Film / 2008
The Baader Meinhof Complex
Directed by
Uli Edel
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.
The story
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.
Cast
Martina GedeckUlrike Meinhof
Moritz BleibtreuAndreas Baader
Johanna WokalekGudrun Ensslin
Nadja UhlBrigitte Mohnhaupt
Stipe ErcegHolger Meins
Niels-Bruno SchmidtJan Karl Raspe
Vinzenz KieferPeter-Jürgen Boock
Simon LichtHorst Mahler
Alexandra Maria LaraPetra Schelm
Bruno GanzHorst Herold
Heino FerchHerolds Assistent
Daniel LommatzschChristian Klar
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Sebastian BlombergRudi Dutschke
Jan Josef LiefersPeter Homann
Hannah HerzsprungSusanne Albrecht
Tom SchillingJosef Bachmann
Hans-Werner MeyerKlaus Rainer Röhl
Katharina WackernagelAstrid Proll
Anna ThalbachIngrid Schubert
Volker BruchStefan Aust
Jasmin TabatabaiHanne
Thomas ThiemeRichter Dr. Prinzing
Susanne BormannPetra 'Peggy' Schoenau
Michael GwisdekHelmut Ensslin
Hubert MulzerJürgen Ponto
Alexander HeldSiegfried Buback
Bernd StegemannHanns Martin Schleyer
Annika KuhlIrmgard Möller
Sandra BorgmannSieglinde Hofmann
Hannes WegenerWilly Peter Stoll
Johannes SuhmThorwald 'Thorsten' Proll
Andreas TobiasManfred Grashof
Britta HammelsteinHanna Krabbe
Christian BlümelSiegfried Hausner
Peter SchneiderGerhard Müller
Christian NätheJochen
Martin GladeBenno Ohnsorg
Nina EichingerTelefonistin Springer Verlag
Sunnyi MellesFrau Buddenberg
Hans Peter HallwachsGünter von Drenkmann
Joachim Paul AssböckGünther Scheicher
Samir FuchsÄgyptischer Fahrer
Michael SchenkAnwalt Hagemann
Jona MuesPranke
Wolfgang PreglerAnstaltsleiter Stammheim
Kirsten BlockFrau Ponto
Ralph KretschmarGruppenmitglied Jens
Bettina LohmeyerTelefonistin
Rainer ReinersPolizist
Esther SeibtSimone - Stefan Austs girlfriend (uncredited)
Johanna BönninghausDanae Coulmas (uncredited)
Alexandra RothertPeter's girlfriend (uncredited)
Norbert Hülm
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