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  • Genre: Drama
  • Release Date: 08/21/2009
  • Running Time: 144 mins
  • Director: Uli Edel
  • Cast: Simon Licht, Alexandra Maria Lara, Bruno Ganz, Martina Gedeck, Moritz Bleibtreu, Hannah Herzsprung, Susanne Bormann, Nadja Uhl, Volker Bruch, Jasmin Tabatabai
  • Producer: Bernd Eichinger
  • Writer: Stefan Aust, Uli Edel
  • Distributor: Vitagraph Films
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Box Office

  1. Dear John, 32.4 mil, 32.4 mil
  2. Avatar, 23.6 mil, 630.1 mil
  3. From Paris With Love, 8.1 mil, 8.1 mil
  4. Edge of Darkness, 7.0 mil, 29.1 mil
  5. The Tooth Fairy, 6.5 mil, 34.3 mil
  6. When in Rome, 5.5 mil, 20.9 mil
  7. The Book of Eli, 4.8 mil, 82.2 mil
  8. Crazy Heart, 3.6 mil, 11.2 mil
  9. Legion, 3.4 mil, 34.6 mil
  10. Sherlock Holmes, 2.6 mil, 201.6 mil
Movie Title, Weekly Earnings, Total Earnings

The Baader Meinhof Complex (Der Baader Meinhof Komplex)

Founded by self-described urban guerrillas Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, and Ulrike Meinhof, the Red Army Faction were the Weather Underground, Symbionese Liberation Army, and righteous outlaws of Bonnie and Clyde combined—robbing banks, planting bombs, shooting cops, and assassinating judges for the better part of the decade that followed the convulsions of 1968. Directed from Bernd Eichinger’s screenplay by Uli Edel, The Baader Meinhof Complex is a sweeping, hectic docudrama that would have been immeasurably helped by the use of informational intertitles. Despite a large cast, only the three principals are individualized. Baader (Moritz Bleibtreu) and Ensslin (Johanna Wokalek) make a charismatic couple—she’s a fiery fanatic, he’s a crazy hipster. As the journalist gone native, Martina Gedeck’s Meinhof is a tormented liberal who takes the existential plunge—and becomes an object of media fascination—when she decides to escape with the duo after facilitating Baader’s 1970 jailbreak. The events are clear, but the psycho-politics are obscure, and the film lacks the claustrophobic power of Koji Wakamatsu’s parallel epic United Red Army. But, from the early scene in which Berlin cops allow Iranian thugs to attack peaceful demonstrators against the Shah to the final corpse-dump of kidnapped industrialist Hanns Schleyer, the movie has an undeniable sweep. “Why do new terrorist units keep emerging? What motivates them?” someone asks the police chief (Bruno Ganz), to which he answers, “A myth.” The Baader Meinhof Complex dramatizes that myth with surprising success even as it fails to illuminate it. — J. Hoberman


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