The Baader Meinhof Complex(Movie, 2008)

Name: The Baader Meinhof Complex
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Released: 2008
Duration: T02:30:00
Rating: 3.5

Original title: "Der Baader Meinhof Komplex" (German/DE)

FSK: 12+ years

| 2h 30min | Genres: Action, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller

Rating: 3.5/5 (with 247 votes)

The Baader Meinhof Complex (German: Der Baader Meinhof Komplex, German: [deːɐ̯ ˈbaːdɐ ˈmaɪ̯nˌhɔf kɔmˈplɛks]) is a 2008 German drama film directed by Uli Edel. Written and produced by Bernd Eichinger, it stars Moritz Bleibtreu, Martina Gedeck, and Johanna Wokalek. The film is based on the 1985 German best selling non-fiction book of the same name by Stefan Aust. It retells the story of the early years of the West German far-left terrorist organisation the Rote Armee Fraktion (Red Army Fraction, or Red Army Faction, a.k.a. RAF) from 1967 to 1977. The film was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 81st Academy Awards. It was also nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 66th Golden Globe Awards. ()

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Available languages: German (Original)
Available subtitles: German
Duration: 2h 24min
Genres: Gerichtsfilme / Thriller / Buchverfilmungen / Filme nach wahren Begebenheiten
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Available languages: German
Duration: 2h 23min

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Available languages: German
Duration: 2h 23min

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Also available at Amazon.de on: DVD

Awards & Nominations for The Baader Meinhof Complex

nominated for: Academy Award for Best International Feature Film nominated for: European Film Award for Best Actor nominated for: European Film Academy Lux Award nominated for: European Film Academy Award of Excellence

About The Baader Meinhof Complex

'Der Baader Meinhof Komplex' depicts the political turmoil in the period from 1967 to the bloody "Deutschen Herbst" in 1977. The movie approaches the events based on Stefan Aust's standard work on the Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF). The story centers on the leadership of the self named anti-fascist resistance to state violence: Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof and Gudrun Ensslin.

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Trailer for The Baader Meinhof Complex + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

Trailer 1(Trailer, 2:16)

Trailer 1 (Trailer) | Deutscher Trailer #2 (Trailer, DE) | Deutscher Trailer #1 (Trailer, DE)

Additional Information

Official websites:

www.bmk.film.de

Production countries: Czech Republic, Germany, France

Shot in: Berlin & Potsdam, Germany, Prague, Munich, Morocco

Plays in: Berlin & Potsdam

Based on: "Baader-Meinhof group" (find it on Amazon)

Made by: Constantin Film, Dune Films, WDR, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Nouvelles Éditions de Films (NEF), Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR), Degeto Film, G.T. Film Production

Original language: German (DE)

Spoken languages: Arabic (AR), German (DE), English (EN), French (FR), Swedish (SV)

Translated into 24 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Georgian (KA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Vietnamese (VI), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date DE: 09/25/2008

Cast: Moritz Bleibtreu, Martina Gedeck, Johanna Wokalek, Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Nadja Uhl, Alexander Held, Anna Thalbach, Hannah Herzsprung, Heino Ferch, Jan Josef Liefers, Jasmin Tabatabai, Michael Gwisdek, Smaïl Mekki, Stipe Erceg, Susanne Bormann, Tom Schilling, Vinzenz Kiefer, Volker Bruch, Simon Licht, Sebastian Blomberg, Hans Werner Meyer, Niels Bruno Schmidt, Daniel Lommatzsch, Katharina Wackernagel, Thomas Thieme, Hubert Mulzer, Bernd Stegemann, Annika Kuhl, Patrick von Blume, Sandra Borgmann, Michael Schenk, Hannes Wegener, Johannes Suhm, Christian Schmidt, Stephan Möller-Titel, Andreas Tobias, Jona Mues, Elisabeth Schwarz, Britta Hammelstein, Christian Blümel, Peter Schneider, Leopold Hornung, Christian Näthe, Martin Glade, Andreas Schröders, Nina Eichinger, Sunnyi Melles, Rainer Reiners, Joachim Paul Assböck, Kirsten Block, Andreas Borcherding, Leonie Brandis, Ben Braun, Aaron Hildebrand, Christian Hoening, Norbert Hülm, Ralph Kretschmar, Carlo Ljubek, Bettina Lohmeyer, Jim McKay, Henrike von Kuick, Karl-Heinz Köpcke, Esther Seibt, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Frank-Otto Schenk, Farah Pahlavi, Willy Brandt, Jakob Diehl, Wolfgang Pregler, Hassam Ghancy, Samir Fuchs, Christian Kerepeszki, Leon Palamarciuc, Sebastian Rüger, Tessie Tellmann, Cyrill Berndt, Kim Frank, Adam Jaskolka, Paul Schlase, Stephan Meyer-Kohlhoff, Nicolas Walier, Helmut Schmidt, Ralf Tempel, Katja Zinsmeister, Oliver Walser, Johanna Bönninghaus

Director: Uli Edel

Producer: Bernd Eichinger

Screenwriter: Bernd Eichinger

Film Editor: Alexander Berner

Director of Photography: Rainer Klausmann

Composer: Peter Hinderthür, Florian Tessloff

Make-up Artist: Waldemar Pokromski

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"巴德尔和迈因霍夫集团"

"Baader Meinhof Komplekset"

"R.A.F. Facción del ejército rojo"

"La bande à Baader"

"바더 마인호프"

"Motståndets tid"

Keywords: leftist radicalism, 1970s

Budget: 27,000,000 USD

Revenue: 26,937,355 USD (= 100%)

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The Baader Meinhof Complex(Movie, 2008)

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Trailer for The Baader Meinhof Complex + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

Trailer 1(Trailer, 2:16)

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