Uli Edel

...chic. Between his outlaw allure and her propaganda skills, they mesmerized a cadre of European student radicals for decades. Director Uli Edel's quasi-documentary account of their crime spree is similarly hypnotic. The film is rigorously...

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...Bridges and Stephen Lang co-star. The Baader Meinhof Complex (R) -- The spirit of fascism reawakens in 1970s Germany in director Uli Edel's fact-based drama about the Red Army Faction, a terrorist group of young fascists hunted by a driven...

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...that history, to comprehend the complexities of their lives and circumstances. That's the sort of intense insight provided by Uli Edel's "The Baader Meinhof Complex," an epic look at a recent blood-soaked episode of post-war Germany. No...

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

...to thwart what many of them perceived as "the new face of fascism" in their divided country. No need to imagine. Director Uli Edel reimagines it for us in bloodcurdling -- and bloodletting -- fashion with "The Baader Meinhof Complex,"...

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

...as "State of Siege" and "The Battle of Algiers." The result is an exciting, infuriating, combative experience. The director, Uli Edel, adhering to Stefan Aust's nonfiction blockbuster "Baader-Meinhof: The Inside Story of the R.A.F.,"...

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

...abandons her husband and their two children. The film is an impressive period re-creation, directed by Uli Edel. The screenplay is by Edel and Bernd Eichinger, who wrote the great "Downfall" (2004), about Hitler's last days in his Berlin...

In this article: Imperialism, Downfall, Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, Ulrike Meinhof, Ideology, and Suicide

...in the space of 144 minutes. It is a little bit of everything, and now and then you get lost in the blur of events. But director Uli Edel, a long way from the Madonna sex thriller "Body of Evidence," plays the material right down the...

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...Thursday, September 10, 2009 at 3:01 PM Tale of young German terrorists only skims the surface "The Baader Meinhof Complex," Uli Edel's Oscar-nominated dramatization of the Red Army Faction's terrorist campaigns, has its impressive...

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...got the intense treatment that "The Baader Meinhof Complex'' applies to Germany's Red Army Faction (RAF). The movie, directed by Uli Edel, is swift, brutal, lurid, often overheated, and occasionally comical, but it's also a serious, well...

In this article: Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, Ulrike Meinhof, Radicalism, Bruno Ganz, United States, and Culprit

...Meinhof Complex" gets the terminology absolutely right. The Baader Meinhof Complex (R) Vitagraph Films (150 min.) Directed by Uli Edel. With Moritz Bleibtreu, Martina Gedeck, Johanna Wokalek. In German, with English subtitles. Now...

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