Ulrike Meinhof

His struggles to smash the state seem like the temper tantrums of a gun-slinging infant. He and former radical journalist Ulrike Meinhof (Martina Gedeck) were the Bonnie and Clyde of 1970s West German radical chic. Between his outlaw...

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...spokesman Rudi Dutschke was shot in the head by a right-wing fanatic. </p><p>We witness these events largely through the eyes of Ulrike Meinhof (Martina Gedeck), a leftist journalist and mother of two who is increasingly radicalized. The...

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

"Sexual revolution and anti-imperialism go together!" So does a certain misogyny on his part, complicated when prominent journalist Ulrike Meinhof (Martina Gedeck) enters their tight-knit cell. In the film's opening nude beach scene,...

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

...depiction of Meinhof as a woman who erases her soul in pursuit of an all-encompassing liberation. When Meinhof violates her humanistic principles, she comes to view anyone opposed to the gang as pigs - and she moves beyond redemption.

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...unstable, alluring, bloody universe. A more conventional treatment would focus primarily, and melodramatically, on Meinhof. In "The Baader Meinhof Complex," which follows its principals from Berlin to terrorist training camps in Jordan to...

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...for a foreign-language Oscar, hews closely to actual events and lays them out with rigorous dispassion. It opens in 1967, when journalist Ulrike Meinhof (Martina Gedek), like many of her fellow Germans, is outraged at the killing of an unarmed...

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...territories, according to her wishes. Dozens of killings were attributed to the RAF. Eventually, Meinhof committed suicide in Stammheim prison, where she was awaiting trial. Her co-defendants, Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl...

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...the political one and failed to keep pace with it. Several of the RAF's key figures, including Ensslin and Meinhof, were female, but when Meinhof calls him on his "let's-torch-everything" strategy, Baader falls back on the oldest misogynist...

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...some interesting details, mostly derived from a book by reporter Stefan Aust, a friend of Meinhof's. The movie reveals, for example, how Aust rescued Meinhof's daughters from an unpleasant, if politically correct, fate. Yet such minutiae...

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...labeled itself the Red Army Faction. A journalist, he wrote for the leftist newspaper co-founded by Meinhof's husband, for which she was a columnist and had extolled the "progressive" virtues of arson. Mr. Aust, who shows up at...

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