The Baader Meinhof Complex

Name: The Baader Meinhof Complex
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Released: 2008-09-25
Duration: 2 h 29 min
Rating: 7.2
Cast: Martina Gedeck, Moritz Bleibtreu, Johanna Wokalek, Nadja Uhl, Stipe Erceg

Der Baader Meinhof Komplex (2008)

Timing: 2:29 (149 min)

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Video for the film The Baader Meinhof Complex — Trailer [Subtitled]

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Release date

2008-09-25

Country

Czech Republic, France, Germany

Production

Dune Films, Constantin Film, WDR, Nouvelles Éditions de Films (NEF), NDR, BR, Degeto Film, G.T. Film Production, Nouvelles Éditions de Films

Genre

Action, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller

Budget

$19 700 000

Box office

$26 937 355

Website

http://www.bmk.film.de/

Director

Uli Edel

Actors

Martina Gedeck, Moritz Bleibtreu, Johanna Wokalek, Nadja Uhl, Stipe Erceg, Niels-Bruno Schmidt, Vinzenz Kiefer, Simon Licht, Alexandra Maria Lara, Bruno Ganz
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Scenario

Producer

Bernd Eichinger

Camera operator

Rainer Klausmann

Composer

Peter Hinderthür

Artist

Bernd Lepel

Audition

An Dorthe Braker, Anne Fremiot

Editing

Alexander Berner
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Short description

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.

What's left behind the scenes

The immediate reaction of Ines Pont, widow of Jürgen Pont, whose murder is depicted in the film, after watching it was to refuse a state award for merit. She was angered that the FRG had never created a memorial to the victims of the RAF, but instead helped finance a film about members of the organization. Furthermore, she said, she was not warned that the film would show Pont's murder when she was invited to the premiere, and therefore felt humiliated by the producers who forced her to see the footage without warning. A month later, she sued the film's producers, who claimed that every scene was historically accurate, but the murder of her husband, which she witnessed from a neighboring room, was depicted incorrectly. She demanded that the scene of her husband's murder be removed from the film. The filmmakers stated that they had tried to contact her to find out details of the murder, but Ines Pont was unwilling to cooperate. Pont's murder had not been shown in the cinema before, and Ines believed that this dishonored her husband.