Baader (film)

Baader
Directed by	Christopher Roth
Screenplay by	Christopher Roth Moritz von Uslar
Produced by	Stephan Fruth Christopher Roth Mark Glaser
Starring	Frank Giering Laura Tonke Vadim Glowna Birge Schade
Cinematography	Bella Halben Jutta Pohlmann
Edited by	Barbara Ries Cristopher Roth
Music by	Bob Last
Release date	15 February 2002 (2002-02-15) (Germany)
Running time	110 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German
Box office	$81,000

Baader is a 2002 German film directed by Christopher Roth. It is a biopic about revolutionary Andreas Baader of the notorious Red Army Faction ("the Baader-Meinhof Gang") which operated mainly in West Germany during the 1970s.

The leading roles are played by Frank Giering (Andreas Baader) and Laura Tonke (Gudrun Ennslin). Birge Schade portrays Ulrike Meinhof.

Though the script is inspired by real-life persons and events, the storyline of the film continuously mixes fact and fiction.

Soundtrack

The soundtrack was released in 2002 on Normal Records with bands like Can, Suicide, Stone Roses, Trans Am and Campag Velocet.

Quotes

Rather than historical realism, Baader provides quotation as a means to convey its portrait of the terrorists. Instead of naturalistic dialogue, the characters often intone excerpts from interviews, articles, speeches, prison notes, or other sources from the historical record. One example is a scene late in the film. Whiele shooting rounds, Meinhof turns and calmly says, „When the time is ripe for the revolution, it will be too late to prepare it.“

— Matthias Frey, Postwall German Cinema. History, Film History and Cinephilia, p. 51

Awards

2002: Silver Bear Jury Prize of Berlin International Film Festival in the category Neue Perspektiven der Filmkunst (English New perspectives of cinematography), Christopher Roth

See also

• Der Baader Meinhof Komplex
• If Not Us, Who?
• Stammheim – Die Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe vor Gericht

References

• Time Out Film Guide 2009

External links

• Baader at IMDb