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“The Baader Meinhof Complex” depicts the West German terrorist group of the 1970s. Vinzenz Kiefer, left, and Hannes Wegener, on car, play group members.
The Journalist Who Exchanged Her Typewriter for a Gun
By MANOHLA DARGIS
Published: August 21, 2009
“The Baader Meinhof Complex,” a taut, unnerving, forcefully unromantic fictional film about a West German terrorist group whose founders ran bloodily amok in the 1970s, opens with a bright, sparkling image of children playing on a beach. It’s 1967, and two of the children are the twin daughters of Ulrike Meinhof (Martina Gedeck), a respected journalist who one day jumped out of a window while helping a prisoner, Andreas Baader (Moritz Bleibtreu), escape. The moment she jumped, Meinhof left her world behind for a life of revolutionary zealotry and nihilistic violence. She traded her typewriter for a gun, her children too. More
