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Director: Christoph Roth
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From Time Out Film Guide
This fast-paced, stylish and highly controversial biopic of the West German terrorist leader Andreas Baader (Giering) occasionally plays fast and loose with the narrative of his life and death, both to capture the spirit of a contradictory personality and to interrogate the self-image he projected, one as central to his own sense of self as to that of post-war German history. The action covers his founding role in the Baader-Meinhof group between 1967-72. Provocative, highly watchable and challenging in how it considers radical iconography and the individual's responsibility to history, this is a significant work reflecting, 30 years on, the still debated key political period.Author: GE
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- Bodhcong said...
- Posted on Feb 26 2008 20:09 The two new T-shirts; or automobile bumper stickers; would be my relevant comment: 1. "JOB KILLS LOVE", and, 2. "NUKE THE CITY PEOPLE" . Today, year '08, conditions are actually worse than at the time of Baader-Meinhoff. Even the most devout at security prevention will admit that; if it were not for the horror of bombings by them; all that they did or would have done was kill some MEATHEADS. The Left, Right, Center, Religio/anti-Religio: all contain mainly MEATHEADS. However, the technical form of the movie "BAADER" is good; because it is direct and simple; and its' tehnical suspense construction is not a deliberate "hyping or wierding" of the mind-reactions of the viewer (the movie makes not any attempts to hyper-compress the mental responses): which construction actually increases the perceived realism of the movie in the day, life, air, spacial context. Which means actually that the personality of the actual Baader-Meinhoff persons could be filmicly revealed, exposed in a context of "wiggle room" individuals perceptions.
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Cast & crew
Director: Christoph Roth
Producer: Stephan Fruth, Christoph Roth, Mark Gläser
Cast: Frank Giering, Laura Tonke, Vadim Glowna, Birge Schade, Jana Pallaske, Michael Sideris, Sebastian Weberstein, Hinnerk Schoenemann, Sarah Riedel full cast
Duration: 109 mins
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