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The Baader Meinhof Complex

SturmgewehrSturmgewehr Member Posts: 4,420
edited September 2010 in General Discussion
Movie trailer link..http://www.baadermeinhofmovie.com/trailer_bmc/


If you ever get the chance check out the movie " The Baader Meinhof Complex"


In the 1970s, Germany was transfixed by the outlaw Baader-Meinhof Gang, terrorists who robbed banks, set off explosives, kidnapped, assassinated and otherwise attempted to bring the government to its knees. What were they against? The usual: U.S. imperialism and German capitalist oppression. What were their politics? Marxist, they thought, but actually reflecting the anarchist theory that random acts of violence could destroy the fabric of a society. They resembled the Weathermen but were longer-lived and much more destructive.

"The Baader Meinhof Complex" is an ambitious attempt to chart the group's rise, fall and tentative rebirth over the course of a decade, when it called itself the Red Army Faction. The film is historically accurate, I gather --perhaps too accurate, with too many names and places and dates and victims to comprehend. No doubt a German who lived through those years would understand it more easily.








Movie trailer link..http://www.baadermeinhofmovie.com/trailer_bmc/

Comments

  • p3skykingp3skyking Member Posts: 23,916 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I remember they targeted a lot of Disco's (Love those European Discos!) that were frequented by US servicemen.

    Rotten bunch of basterds.
  • SturmgewehrSturmgewehr Member Posts: 4,420
    edited November -1
    In this movie they're ruthless man. In one scene they do show a disco being targeted for a bombing.
  • KSUmarksmanKSUmarksman Member Posts: 10,705 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    so that's who Simon Gruber's men were...I always thought they were neo-nazis...
  • MudderChuckMudderChuck Member Posts: 4,105
    edited November -1
    I lived it, they just missed me by a couple of hours or minutes on a few occasions. I actually spotted one trying to buy a car at a gas station. By the time the investigators got around to talking to me, the deed had already been done.
    I was due for an appointment one day and was running late, they set off a car bomb at Rhine Main airbase, feet from where I was due to give an estimate for re-plumbing (steam) a laundromat. If I would have been on time chances are I'd be dead.
  • nemesisenforcernemesisenforcer Member Posts: 10,513 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    It's been in my netflix queu for awhile. Need to set aside 2 hours and get it done sometime when The Wife is out (doesn't much look like her kinda movie.) Looks top notch.
  • fishkiller41fishkiller41 Member Posts: 50,608
    edited November -1
    Thanks for the movie tip,i'll see if I can find it b/4 reading your post.[8D]
    I found it.just hoping I get it in English...Subs suck.
  • SturmgewehrSturmgewehr Member Posts: 4,420
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by fishkiller41
    Thanks for the movie tip,i'll see if I can find it b/4 reading your post.[8D]
    I found it.just hoping I get it in English...Subs suck.


    Even with the subs I thought it was a excellant flick..
  • fishkiller41fishkiller41 Member Posts: 50,608
    edited November -1
    Sturm, Did U ever see "MAX MANUS,MAN OF WAR"? I'm watching it right now.
    It's about Nazi occupation in Norway and some guy (MAX) who is in on the ground floor of the resistance army...
    Looks like it's going to be a good'n too..

    D'load VUZE and the VLC player,U can see all U ever want,free of charge.
  • glynglyn Member Posts: 5,698 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Looks good will have to order it on netflix.But I did notice in the trailer that altho it is in the sixties I saw a 70s english Ford Granada.I wonder how accurate it is.
  • SturmgewehrSturmgewehr Member Posts: 4,420
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by glyn
    Looks good will have to order it on netflix.But I did notice in the trailer that altho it is in the sixties I saw a 70s english Ford Granada.I wonder how accurate it is.


    The movie starts out in the late 60's then progress into the late 1970's !

    quote:In the 1970s, Germany was transfixed by the outlaw Baader-Meinhof Gang, terrorists who robbed banks, set off explosives, kidnapped, assassinated and otherwise attempted to bring the government to its knees. What were they against? The usual: U.S. imperialism and German capitalist oppression. What were their politics? Marxist, they thought, but actually reflecting the anarchist theory that random acts of violence could destroy the fabric of a society. They resembled the Weathermen but were longer-lived and much more destructive.

    "The Baader Meinhof Complex" is an ambitious attempt to chart the group's rise, fall and tentative rebirth over the course of a decade, when it called itself the Red Army Faction. The film is historically accurate, I gather --perhaps too accurate, with too many names and places and dates and victims to comprehend. No doubt a German who lived through those years would understand it more easily.
  • SturmgewehrSturmgewehr Member Posts: 4,420
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by fishkiller41
    Sturm, Did U ever see "MAX MANUS,MAN OF WAR"? I'm watching it right now.
    It's about Nazi occupation in Norway and some guy (MAX) who is in on the ground floor of the resistance army...
    Looks like it's going to be a good'n too..

    D'load VUZE and the VLC player,U can see all U ever want,free of charge.
    Have to check it out [;)]
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