The Baader Meinhof Complex (Edel, 2008)
09-16-08, 08:18 PM
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The Baader Meinhof Complex (Edel, 2008)
From IMDB:
Without U.S. distribution as of yet, but selected by Germany for Academy Award consideration.
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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.
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09-18-08, 08:32 PM
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Edel's a good director, so I might give this a look.
09-25-08, 04:48 PM
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Variety review:
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.
11-24-08, 10:08 AM
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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.
07-30-09, 10:50 PM
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Re: The Baader Meinhof Complex (Edel, 2008)
U.S. Trailer:
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'Baader Meinhof' Theatrical Trailer @ Yahoo! Video
'Baader Meinhof' Theatrical Trailer @ Yahoo! Video
