Andreas Baader

...on them are on every corner. At times the film feels more a romantic myth like "Bonnie and Clyde" than modern history, especially with its sexy, self-assured couple of Baader and Ensslin at the film's core. Yet the consequences of their...

In this article: Gudrun Ensslin, Ulrike Meinhof, Uli Edel, Das Experiment, Tehran, and Joan of Arc

...behind the film version of another German trauma, The Baader Meinhof Complex. Founded by self-described urban guerrillas Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, and Ulrike Meinhof, the Red Army Faction was the Weather Underground, Symbionese...

In this article: Ulrike Meinhof, Gudrun Ensslin, Uli Edel, Bonnie and Clyde, Bernd Eichinger, Stammheim, Berlin, and Germany

...revelled in the pure hedonism of violence. "It wasn't so much about the cause, it was about the party, but then it got way out of control," says Moritz Bleibtreu, who plays Baader in the film. Out of control is an understatement. In its...

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...answer to Bonnie and Clyde - a slander on both movies. But he went on to say that The Baader-Meinhof Complex 'brings to light a repressed truth about the allure of the RAF. Girls with guns are the ultimate desire and fear fantasy of a...

In this article: Ulrike Meinhof, RAF, Gudrun Ensslin, Stefan Aust, Germany, Brigitte Mohnhaupt, and The Lives of Others

...comrade-ism. But, as the goateed leader Andreas Baader (Moritz Bleibtreu) roughly proclaims in one scene, for these malcontents fucking and shooting are one and the same, though the gang isn't particularly skilled at either. This brash...

In this article: Uli Edel, Bonnie and Clyde, Ulrike Meinhof, Martina Gedeck, Bernd Eichinger, and Moritz Bleibtreu