The Baader Meinhof Complex

(2008)

★ 7 IMDb · 667 votes

Genres: Action, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller

Year: 2008

Runtime: 149 мин

Country: Czech Republic, France

Director: Ули Эдель

Cast: Martina Gedeck, Мориц Бляйбтрой, Johanna Wokalek, Надя Уль, Stipe Erceg, Нильс-Бруно Шмидт, Винценц Кифер, Simon Licht, Александра Мария Лара, Bruno Ganz

Plot

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.

Germany in the 1970s: Murderous bomb attacks, the threat of terrorism, and the fear of the enemy inside are rocking the very foundations of the yet-fragile German democracy. The radicalized children of the Nazi generation led by Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof, and Gudrun Ensslin are fighting a violent war against what they perceive as the new face of fascism: American imperialism supported by the German establishment, many of whom have a Nazi past. Their aim is to create a more human society, but by employing inhuman means they not only spread terror and bloodshed; they also lose their own humanity. The man who understands them is also their hunter: Horst Herold, head of the German police force. And while he succeeds in his relentless pursuit of the young terrorists, he knows he's only dealing with the tip of the iceberg.