Andreas Baader

...includes two Germans -- David Kross as Winslet's young lover in "The Reader" and Moritz Bleibtreu as '70s terrorist Andreas Baader in "The Baader Meinhof Complex" -- and two Brits: "Slumdog Millionaire" star Dev Patel and Steve Evets,...

In this article: Oscar, The Reader, Slumdog Millionaire, Michael Haneke, Jacques Audiard, Penelope Cruz, Kate Winslet, Danny Boyle, The White Ribbon, and Moritz Bleibtreu

The name Moritz Bleibtreu means little to American moviegoers, so imagine the volcanic early Jack Nicholson. Bleibtreu plays Andreas Baader, a volatile West German thug who led a terrorist gang called the Red Army Faction. His struggles to...

In this article: Moritz Bleibtreu, Uli Edel, Martina Gedeck, Bonnie and Clyde, Ideology, Cadre, Ulrike Meinhof, and The Miami Herald

...but thanks to Cold War paranoia West Germany is still a fascist state. </p><p>Recruited by comrades of jailed radical Andreas Baader (Moritz Bleibtreu), she arranges to interview the controversial firebrand but in fact is part of a...

In this article: Ulrike Meinhof, Uli Edel, Bruno Ganz, Martina Gedeck, Moritz Bleibtreu, Germany, and Berlin

...genres go, it has pretty much everything: action, thrills, crime, cops, romance, history -- and a plethora of biography. Central figure Andreas Baader (Moritz Bleibtreu) and his girlfriend Gudrun Ensslin (Johanna Wokalek) are free-lover...

In this article: Uli Edel, Bruno Ganz, Ulrike Meinhof, Imperialism, Fascism, Martina Gedeck, and Moritz Bleibtreu

...and already a national figure - a left-wing broadcast pundit and magazine columnist - when Gudrun Ensslin (Johanna Wokalek) and Andreas Baader (Moritz Bleibtreu) were merely contemplating their revolutionary complex. In swift, telling...

In this article: Ulrike Meinhof, Gudrun Ensslin, Uli Edel, Robin Hood, Radicalism, The Battle of Algiers, and Moritz Bleibtreu

...center is a handsome young egoist, badass, and high-school dropout named Andreas Baader. According to Moritz Bleibtreu's stormy performance, Baader is as devoted to chicks, fast driving, and shooting guns as he is to proletarian...

In this article: Germany, Bourgeoisie, Capitalism, Blowin' in the Wind, Ulrike Meinhof, Martina Gedeck, Moritz Bleibtreu, and Jean-Paul Sartre

...movie's propelled by its breathless technique, similar to what Martin Scorsese brought to "GoodFellas." Baader was Andreas Baader, whose lover, Gudrun Ensslin, started the group with a surprising third party, a left-wing journalist and...

In this article: Ulrike Meinhof, Uli Edel, Martina Gedeck, Goodfellas, Gudrun Ensslin, Stefan Aust, Bernd Eichinger, Moritz Bleibtreu, and Body of Evidence

...killing of an unarmed demonstrator at a rally in Berlin. Several months later, activists Gudrun Ensslin (Johanna Wokalek) and Andreas Baader (Moritz Bleibtreu) are arrested after firebombing a department store to protest the war in Vietnam.

In this article: Gudrun Ensslin, Ulrike Meinhof, Last Exit to Brooklyn, Germany, Culpability, Nihilism, and Ideology

...another likely split: between people seeing their first movie about the group and those who have followed German cinema's obsession with Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof and Gudrun Ensslin. The latest film on the subject - and one of the five...

In this article: Ulrike Meinhof, Martina Gedeck, Moritz Bleibtreu, Run Lola Run, Gudrun Ensslin, Imperialism, Authoritarianism, Bruno Ganz, and Stefan Aust

...shown in the very funny, borderline surreal sequence in Jordan, where the faction had gone to train with a Palestinian group. Baader, in his tight velvet pants, didn't take to the rigorous drills, and the Palestinians, offended by the women's...

In this article: Ulrike Meinhof, Stefan Aust, Bernd Eichinger, Bruno Ganz, Martina Gedeck, Gudrun Ensslin, Uli Edel, and Moritz Bleibtreu