The Baader Meinhof Complex
The Baader Meinhof Complex (German: Der Baader Meinhof Komplex, ) is a 2008 German drama film directed by Uli Edel. Written and produced by Bernd Eichinger, it stars Moritz Bleibtreu, Martina Gedeck, and Johanna Wokalek. The film is based on the 1985 German best selling non-fiction book of the same name by Stefan Aust. It retells the story of the early years of the West German far-left terrorist organisation the Rote Armee Fraktion (Red Army Fraction, or Red Army Faction, a.k.a. RAF) from 1967 to 1977.
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| Cinematography | Rainer Klausmann
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| Budget | €13.5 million ($19.7 million)
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| Box office | $16,498,827
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- French visa # 115014 delivered on 3-9-2008.
- Katharina Wackernagel who plays Astrid in the film is the niece of actor Christof Wackernagel who was himself a member of the RAF.
- Nadja Uhl, who plays the RAF terrorist Brigitte Mohnhaupt, also played the part of the stewardess Gabriele Dillmann in the 2008 production Mogadischu (2008). Dillmann was a crew member of the Lufthansa plane 'Landshut' which was hijacked to force the German government to release RAF terrorists from prison in 1977.
- Hannah Herzsprung's mother Barbara Herzsprung was roommates with the real Susanne Albrecht at a boarding school when they were teens. Albrecht is portrayed by Hannah in this movie.
- Ex-terrorist Brigitte Mohnhaupt, who was released on probation in the spring of 2008 after 24 years in jail, took the production company Constantin to court for the sex scene, demanding that it be deleted. A Hamburg court dismissed the suit in December 2008.
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