The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008)
Overview
'Der Baader Meinhof Komplex' depicts the political turmoil in the period from 1967 to the bloody "Deutschen Herbst" in 1977. The movie approaches the events based on Stefan Aust's standard work on the Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF). The story centers on the leadership of the self named anti-fascist resistance to state violence: Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof and Gudrun Ensslin.
Production Companies
Additional Info
| Budget | $27,000,000.00 |
|---|---|
| Revenue | $26,937,355.00 |
| Original Language | de |
| Popularity | 8.651 |
Directed By
Uli Edel
Crew
Uli Edel
Uli Edel
Bernd Eichinger
Stefan Aust
Alexander Berner
Bernd Eichinger
Peter Hinderthür
Florian Tessloff
Rainer Klausmann
An Dorthe Braker
Hucky Hornberger
Paola Riviello
Bernd Lepel
Roland Schwarthoff
Johannes Wild
Birgit Missal
Anne Fremiot
Brigitte Friedländer-Rodriguez
Pia Hoffmann
Lutz Zeidler
Volker Gläser
Christian Graf
Markus Eckert
Driss Marzak
Uli Nefzer
Adolf Wojtinek
Manfred Büttner
Oliver Kirchhoff
Stefan Tischner
Daniel Iribarren
Fabian Schmidt
Joo Fürst
Jörn Poetzl
Andreas Schneider
Jan Bloemeke
Lisa Geffcken-Reinhard
Michael Kranz
Benjamin A. Rosenkind
Sabine Schumann
Luca Vannella
Waldemar Pokromski
Sabine Rohrman
Mariam Lee Abounouom
Ana de Mier y Ortuño
TOP CAST
Martina Gedeck
Ulrike Meinhof
Moritz Bleibtreu
Andreas Baader
Johanna Wokalek
Gudrun Ensslin
Nadja Uhl
Brigitte Mohnhaupt
Stipe Erceg
Holger Meins
Niels-Bruno Schmidt
Jan Karl Raspe
Vinzenz Kiefer
Peter-Jürgen Boock
Simon Licht
Horst Mahler
Alexandra Maria Lara
Petra Schelm
Bruno Ganz
Horst Herold
Heino Ferch
Herolds Assistent
Daniel Lommatzsch
Christian Klar
Sebastian Blomberg
Rudi Dutschke
Jan Josef Liefers
Peter Homann
Hannah Herzsprung
Susanne Albrecht
Tom Schilling
Josef Bachmann
Hans-Werner Meyer
Klaus Rainer Röhl
Katharina Wackernagel
Astrid Proll
Anna Thalbach
Ingrid Schubert
Volker Bruch
Stefan Aust
Jasmin Tabatabai
Hanne
Thomas Thieme
Richter Dr. Prinzing
Susanne Bormann
Petra 'Peggy' Schoenau
Michael Gwisdek
Helmut Ensslin
Hubert Mulzer
Jürgen Ponto
Alexander Held
Siegfried Buback
Bernd Stegemann
Hanns Martin Schleyer
Annika Kuhl
Irmgard Möller
Sandra Borgmann
Sieglinde Hofmann
Hannes Wegener
Willy Peter Stoll
Johannes Suhm
Thorwald 'Thorsten' Proll
Andreas Tobias
Manfred Grashof
Britta Hammelstein
Hanna Krabbe
Christian Blümel
Siegfried Hausner
Peter Schneider
Gerhard Müller
Christian Näthe
Jochen
Martin Glade
Benno Ohnsorg
Nina Eichinger
Telefonistin Springer Verlag
Sunnyi Melles
Frau Buddenberg
Hans Peter Hallwachs
Günter von Drenkmann
Joachim Paul Assböck
Günther Scheicher
Samir Fuchs
Ägyptischer Fahrer
Michael Schenk
Anwalt Hagemann
Jona Mues
Pranke
Wolfgang Pregler
Anstaltsleiter Stammheim
Kirsten Block
Frau Ponto
Ralph Kretschmar
Gruppenmitglied Jens
Bettina Lohmeyer
Telefonistin
Rainer Reiners
Polizist
Esther Seibt
Simone - Stefan Austs girlfriend (uncredited)
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