The Baader Meinhof Complex is the true story of Andreas Baader (Moritz Bleibtreu), Ulrike Meinhof (Martina Gedeck) and Gudrun Ensslin (Johanna Wokalek) who were the radicalised children of the Nazi generation, which is about to send Germany in the 1970s on a terrorist path of bombing and causing chaos within the foundations of democracy in Germany who like other countries are facing their own social problems, this being the worst and deadliest.
The argument of resorting to violence was the perception of American influence and political unity in the German state didn't approve and felt America was becoming too imperialistic.
The means are often spoken to justify the end result and here it was thought of creating a more 'human society' whatever that is supposed to mean when you're carrying-out terrorist atrocities against unarmed civilians who only want to live in peace, like the rest of us.
Soon the young terrorists are pursued by the head of German police Horst Herold (Bruno Ganz) who knows only too well that stopping this cause will only touch the tip of the iceberg.
The Baader Meinhof Complex is available on DVD
The Baader Meinhof Complex is available on Books
Rob Clarke
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