Moritz Bleibtreu

Alongside Rahim, the European actor category 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...

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Review | The Baader-Meinhof Complex (R) ***½ The birth of modern terrorism as a thriller Johanna Wokalek and Moritz Bleibtreu terrorize West Germany in the 1970s. The name Moritz Bleibtreu means little to American moviegoers, so imagine...

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...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 scheme to...

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

...the home-grown radical group whose bombings, kidnappings and hijackings rocked West Germany for a decade. Starring: Martina Gedeck, Moritz Bleibtreu, Bruno Ganz. Rating: R for strong bloody violence, disturbing images, sexual content,...

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...in lieu of back taxes, his girlfriend Nadine (Pheline Roggan) jets off to a new job in China, and his no-account brother Illias (Moritz Bleibtreu) is let out of prison on parole. Intending to join Nadine in Shanghai, Zinos hires new...

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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: Andreas Baader, Martina Gedeck, Uli Edel, Bonnie and Clyde, Ideology, Cadre, Ulrike Meinhof, Jack Nicholson, and Berlin

...and assassinations into motion. The key, I think, to the film's success is twofold. The acting excels; performances such as Moritz Bleibtreu's insolent, childishly brutish Baader do not ask for our sympathy for a moment. Martina Gedeck's...

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...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 1970, after...

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

...Complex' a true epic:/c/a/2009/09/03/MVNI199RNL.DTL Review: 'Baader Meinhof Complex' a true epic Drama. Starring Martina Gedeck, Moritz Bleibtreu, Johanna Wokalek and Bruno Ganz. Directed by Uli Edel. In German with English subtitles.

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Helmer Oskar Roehler, Bleibtreu re-team for 'Faust' COLOGNE, Germany -- German star Moritz Bleibtreu ("The Baader Meinhof Complex") has signed on to star as Mephisto, the devil, in Oskar Roehler's adaptation of the classic "Faust." The...

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