An explosive performance by Johanna Wokalek gives some relief to an otherwise long and humdrum series of characters, blow-'em-ups and prison locations in German terrorist drama "The Baader Meinhof ...

Wooden batons wielded by German police club students, gashing their foreheads. Water cannons explode, toppling people in their path like bowling pins. Mounted police horses charge at demonstrators. A ...

What a new German movie can teach America about confronting its history with domestic radicals. In 1972, Baader, Meinhof, and Ensslin were captured and placed in separate jails. But, in response to ...

One of the last members of the left-wing militant group Red Army Faction, also known as the Baader-Meinhof Group, to remain in prison is set to be released after twenty-six years behind bars.

"The Baader Meinhof Complex" is an unsparing cinematic look at the bloody career of the Red Army Faction, also called the Baader-Meinhof Gang, which terrorized Germany through bombings, bank robberies ...

Youthful idealism turns to indiscriminate fury in The Baader Meinhof Complex, a movie that will divide audiences — and not just along political lines. True, left-leaning viewers are more likely to ...

Some of the most interesting discoveries are utterly serendipitous, and, as journalists and documentary filmmakers know, one work could easily generate another: the story of its making. On a ...

An explosive performance by Johanna Wokalek gives some relief to an otherwise long and humdrum series of characters, blow-'em-ups and prison locations in German terrorist drama "The Baader Meinhof ...

Three decades after the "German autumn"—the climax of a wave of bomb attacks and kidnappings by the Red Army Faction (RAF)—producer and writer Bernd Eichinger (Downfall, Perfume: The Story of a ...

MUNICH — This year’s German contender for the best foreign-language film Oscar may have been intended, like the 2007 Oscar winner “The Lives of Others,” to help Germans come to terms with their recent ...

Bernd Eichinger, who wrote and produced Downfall, is the force behind the film version of another German trauma,The Baader Meinhof Complex. Founded by self-described urban guerrillas Andreas Baader, ...