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The Baader Meinhof Complex
Action, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller - 2008
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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.
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Rated:
R
Runtime:
149 min
Release date:
25 Sep 2008
Country:
CZ, FR, DE
Languages:
French, Arabic, English, Swedish, German
Budget:
$19,700,000
Revenue:
$26,937,355
Awards:
Nominated for 1 Oscar. 4 wins & 22 nominations total

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It doggedly refuses easy ways out, and it has the guts, brains and critical eye to plumb the roots of terror and its bloody consequences.
– Chris Vognar,
Dallas Morning News,
16 Oct 2009
fresh:
The Baader-Meinhof Complex is not an easy film to watch; its violence is ugly and brutish. And there's a lot of it.
– Richard Nilsen,
Arizona Republic,
1 Oct 2009
fresh:
Part thriller, part social history, this tense 2008 drama traces the rise and fall of the Baader-Meinhof gang.
– J. R. Jones,
Chicago Reader,
25 Sep 2009
fresh:
It'd be nice to see an American filmmaker commit a similar reckoning with the Watts riots, the Weather Underground, or the Black Power movement, not simply resort to cant and kitsch but to really interpret those moments.
– Wesley Morris,
Boston Globe,
25 Sep 2009
fresh:
There are some literally killer performances here, most notably Johanna Wokalek as Gudrun.
– Tom Long,
Detroit News,
18 Sep 2009
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