From IMDB (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0765432/): A look at Germany's terrorist group, The Red Army Faction (RAF), which organized bombings, robberies, kidnappings and assassinations in the late 1960s and '70s. Based on Stefan Aust's best-selling nonfiction book.
Without U.S. distribution as of yet, but selected by Germany (http://www.german-films.de/app/news/news_view.php?pressrelease_id=714) for Academy Award consideration.
I really hope this will get a decent DVD release here in the U.S. I read the book ages ago, and it's fascinating stuff.
Norm de Plume
09-18-08, 09:32 PM
Edel's a good director, so I might give this a look.
NoirFan
09-25-08, 05:48 PM
Variety review (http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117938504.html?categoryid=1263&cs=1): An explosive performance by Johanna Wokalek gives some relief to an otherwise long and humdrum series of characters, blow-'em-ups and prison locations in German terrorist drama "The Baader Meinhof Complex." Director Uli Edel's and scribe-producer Bernd Eichinger's two-and-a-half-hour look at the tumultuous first decade of the notorious 1960s/'70s Red Army Faction packs in so much material that foreign auds especially won't be able to see the terrorist group for the trees.
The Bus
09-25-08, 06:13 PM
This looks good.
NoirFan
11-23-08, 11:35 AM
DVD Times review (http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=69448)
Giles
11-24-08, 11:08 AM
saw this last Friday, I have to say it was an entertaining film, but it felt very hamfisted - it was well acted but the script felt slighted in favour for alot of OTT violence.
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