Prosecutors in Germany are investigating a claim that the brain of urban guerrilla Ulrike Meinhof was removed after her death and examined to find a reason for her violent behavior. Meinhof was a ...

"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 ...

Germany, 1967. During the Shah of Persia's visit to West Berlin, a student demonstration is brutally broken up by the police; a student dies. Left-wing journalist Ulrike Meinhof (Martina Gedeck) ...

To the columnist’s obligation to provide a 10-best list of 2009 films, I punt by offering just one. It is “The Baader Meinhof Complex.” The movie lingers because, to me, it is only incidentally about ...

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Martina Gedeck's loss of a loved one offered inspiration for the role of Ulrike Meinhof, says Evan Fanning When Martina Gedeck was acting out the last dark days of Ulrike Meinhof's life in The Baader ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The subject of the fascinating Oscar-nominated German film “The Baader Meinhof Complex” is the Red ...