Official Selection
Uli Edel's The Baader Meinhof Complex, the terrorist drama I wrote about yesterday, has been selected as Germany's candidate for the Best Foreign-Language pic Oscar. Produced and adapted by Constantin Film's Bernd Eichinger, the period drama is based on Stefan Aust's book about the New Left gang of commie-guerilla outlaws who kicked up dust from the late '60s to mid '70s.
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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on September 16, 2008 at 7:14 AM
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joncro
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apparently they were active until 1993.
Posted by joncro
at September 16, 2008 9:32 AM
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bagelfilm
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Still a dissapointing movie and a scandal choice, as Doris Doerrie's "Hanami" is the best German film of the year.
Posted by bagelfilm
at September 16, 2008 9:38 AM
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btwnproductions
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Looks interesting, but Eichinger productions, while popular in Europe, never seem to click here.
Posted by btwnproductions
at September 16, 2008 10:13 AM
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lazespud
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Well I wouldn't fault Eichinger for it; basically German films do lousy here in General. The last movie to even do moderately well was the lives of others, which made about 10 million here.
This movie, however, is going to totally be amazing. If people want to read more about the group that this movie is about, I invite you to visit my website: http://www.baader-meinhof.com . On the home page I have a brief clip from a History Channel documentary that features the writer of the movie as well as me commenting on the group.
If the movie captures even a tiny bit of the crazy, scary times of Germany in the early 70s, this will be a great, great movie.
Posted by lazespud
at September 16, 2008 1:46 PM
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joncro
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lazespud - your website looks cool so I am reluctant to complain, but are you sure that the phrase 'Dawn of Terror' is appropriate?
Surely terrorist and guerilla tactics have been in use for most of the 20th century..... Spanish Civil War, Palestine, partisans in WW2 just off the top of my head.....
The IRA were using terror tactics at about the same time as the RAF too, and they certainly hadn't invented any of them.
I agree, this movie will be great though and I hope to learn a little more about the crazy, scary times of Germany in the early 70s.
Posted by joncro
at September 16, 2008 2:35 PM
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lazespud
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Hi Joncro --
You're right in a sense, and I appreciate you're comments. One of the threads of my book is how The Baader-Meinhof Gang were the first truly modern terrorists in a media-savvy sense. They were truly the first "celebrity terrorists" and their fundamental understanding of the symbiotic nature of the media and their own actions was revolutionary. Virtually every terror group that followed learned from the playbook that they wrote. When I talk about "The Dawn of Terror" I basically mean political terrorism in the modern sense.
Having been studying these guys for more than a decade (and knowing that comrades of them tried to kill my dad in his job at the head of the US Army Berlin Bomb Disposal unit), I literally got chills watching that trailer. It captures that time so incredibly well. I hope the full movie lives up to what we saw in that trailer....
Posted by lazespud
at September 16, 2008 4:08 PM
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