Topic: Uli Edel

The Baader Meinhof Complex

Imagine if Hollywood decided to tell the story of 1960s revolutionary group the Weather Underground. Does this sound like a solid representation to you?. But while director Uli Edel doesn't downplay the gang's bad decisions, he does manage to combine ...

Lashings of the Old Ultra-Violence

The Baader Meinhof gang-as the press called them - did not play around. In the early 1970s, the Red Army Faction-the name they preferred-set off bombs in US Army barracks, German newspaper offices and various police headquarters. Led by whining complainer journalist/social ...
Directors nominated for Golden Globe in foreign-language category meet, greet fansThe five directors nominated in the foreign-language category for the Golden Globes gathered Saturday to bask in the adulation of fans and talk film.The symposium marked the first time the directors ...

Terror and glamour in The Baader Meinhof Complex

There can't be many present-day film-goers with more than the vaguest memory of the Red Army Faction - aka the Baader Meinhof gang - who went on a killing and bombing spree in West Germany in the Seventies. The three principal characters are ...