Film: The Baader Meinhof Complex

Dir: Uli Edel / Germany, France, Czech Republic / 2008 /150 mins / Cert: 15A / Language: German

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Riverbank Arts CentreNewbridge

Event Details

  • Mon 16 Nov  2009
  • 8.00pm

  • Cost: €6 (Including nightly membership fee)

  • Venue Details
    Riverbank Arts Centre
    Main St.
    Newbridge



The Baader Meinhof Complex reunites Downfall's producer-screenwriter Bernd Eichinger with his college friend and Christiane F and Last Exit to Brooklyn director Uli Edel.

The film is engrossing on many levels, deftly relating the events that rocked Germany in the 1970s as the Baader Meinhof Gang – or the Red Army Faction – wielded its crazed mixture of ultra-left-wing ideology with vicious terrorism, The Baader Meinhof Gang started out as a loose group of ultra-left-wing student radicals making a noise: by the end, it was an almost-aimless professional terrorist group allied to the PLO and involved in cross-border extortion, kidnapping, murder and bombings. It did not officially cease to exist until 1998.

The Baader Meinhof Complex will have an inbuilt audience of viewers who remember that vivid era. Screen International.


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