The Baader Meinhof Complex
From the writer and producer of the critically acclaimed international box office sensation Downfall comes the high paced, action packed thriller The Baader Meinhof Complex, released on DVD on 20 April 2009 by Momentum Pictures.
A gripping adaptation based on the non-fiction best-seller by Stefan Aust the film follows the lives of the radicalised children of the Nazi generation, members of Germany’s notorious terrorist group - the Red Army Faction; as they fight a violent war against what they believe to be the new face of fascism.
Set in West Germany in the late 1960s, Andrea Baader, Ulrike Meinhof and Gudrun Ensslin are the leaders of the Red Army Faction - urban guerillas, ruthlessly fighting a bloody and brutal war against the German establishment.
Trying to create a more humane society by using inhuman means, they spread terror and bloodshed throughout the country, losing their own humanity and becoming cold blooded killers in the process.
The only man that understands them is also their hunter, head of the German Police force, Horst Herold. Relentlessly pursuing the leaders of the Red Army Faction as they bomb, rob, kidnap and assassinate anyone that get’s in their way, Herold closes in on them but will this put a stop the carnage or do the young leaders represent only the tip of the iceberg?
The Baader Meinhof Complex has recently been selected as Germany’s candidate for the 2009 foreign-language film nomination for the Academy Awards®.
The Baader Meinhof Complex stars Martina Gedeck (The Lives of Others, The Good Shepherd) as Ulrike Meinhof; Moritz Bleibtreu (The Walker, Munich) as Andreas Baader; Johanna Wokalek (North Face) as Gudrun Ensslin and Bruno Ganz (Downfall, The Reader) as Horst Herold, the relentless policeman on the hunt for the deadly trio.