The Baader Meinhof Complex Page #2

Synopsis: Germany in the 1970s: Murderous bomb attacks, the threat of terrorism and the fear of the enemy inside are rocking the very foundations of the yet fragile German democracy. The radicalised children of the Nazi generation lead by Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof and Gudrun Ensslin are fighting a violent war against what they perceive as the new face of fascism: American imperialism supported by the German establishment, many of whom have a Nazi past. Their aim is to create a more human society but by employing inhuman means they not only spread terror and bloodshed, they also lose their own humanity. The man who understands them is also their hunter: the head of the German police force Horst Herold. And while he succeeds in his relentless pursuit of the young terrorists, he knows he's only dealing with the tip of the iceberg.
Director(s): Uli Edel
Production: Vitagraph Films
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 4 wins & 20 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.4
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Year:
2008
150 min
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From German ground

wars are still prepared.

From German ports and miltary bases...

The American military

wages the Vietnam war!

We cannot allow this!

We must stop the German government

helping this Imperialist war in Viet Nam!

Are you Ulrike Meinhof?

- Yes.

We are forced to take illegal action...

let sabotage and blockades start now!

We protest against this conference!

Ladies and Gentlemen,

this conference is terminated!

Are you Rudi Dutschke?

Yes, I am.

- You dirty communist pig!

I am dead. Let me live.

Father. Mother.

Soldier... Soldier...

He's down here!

He went down here somewhere.

Search the building site.

- Covering!

You are surrounded!

Come out with hands up!

I can't stand communists.

Rudi Dutschke is in critical condition

after two hours of emergency surgery today.

Only one of the two bullets

could be removed from his head.

Spontaneous demonstrations

have sprung up across the country,

blaming the Springer publishing house

for inciting the assasination attempt.

Springer, Murderer!

I didn't think this was your style!

Attention, this is the Police!

You are trespassing

on private property.

Leave the area immediately!

Come along!

Frau Meinhof? What are you doing here?

Release her. Frau Meinhof is a journalist.

Dresden!

Hiroshima!

Vietnam!

Dresden!

Hiroshima!

Vietnam!

Che Guevara was captured...

and then murdered by the CIA...

Yesterday Martin Luther King

was assasinated...

...Senator Robert Kennedy was shot...

Republican Richard Nixon becomes

the 37th President of the USA

Soldiers sealed off the street

and fired into the crowd.

One of the first Soviet vehicles

into Czechoslovakia...

The students call the protests

in Paris cultural revolution.

The state calls it anarchy.

The more I hear of this shouting,

the clearer it becomes - we need

to ensure the rule of law in this country.

In agreement with Andreas Baader

I want to make a statement.

He and I placed the bomb

in the department store.

We did it to protest

against the indifference...

of people who sit and watch

the genocide in Vietnam.

We believe that speech

without action is wrong.

Order, please!

Order, please!

Mr Mahler?

Could you do us the honour of

allowing the court to share the joke?

The judges can hardly understand

the ideas Ms Ensslins and Mr Baader.

Otherwise they would take off their

robes and join the protests themselves.

Order!

Order, please!

Mr Ensslin, your daughter wanted to

address your generation with her act.

Whatever they wanted to do,

it comes to this:

Our generation experienced,

in the name of the people,

concentration camps, Jew hate, genocide,

and now will not permit

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Bernd Eichinger

Bernd Eichinger (11 April 1949 – 24 January 2011) was a German film producer, director and screenwriter. more…

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