Fiendishly researched and smartly constructed, “A German Youth” is a formidable piece of documentary detective work focusing on a small but significant historical moment that continues to matter.

Girl meets boy, girl has baby with boy, girl meets another boy, girl runs off with new lover to become terrorist. The bare outline of the Gudrun Ensslin story is conventional to a point, but then ...

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THE PSYCHOLOGY of the Red Army Faction terrorists who wreaked havoc in the 1970s was explored in three contemplative German movies released between 1979 and 1986: Rainer Werner Fassbinder's The Third ...

The controversy over the Oscar-nominated film about Germany’s mostnotorious Urban Terrorist Group, is just the latest episode in a mediasaga begun 40 years ago. (Quote found in the cells of the Baader ...

MUNICH — This year’s German contender for the best foreign-language film Oscar may have been intended, like the 2007 Oscar winner “The Lives of Others,” to help Germans come to terms with their recent ...

Some of the most interesting discoveries are utterly serendipitous, and, as journalists and documentary filmmakers know, one work could easily generate another: the story of its making. On a ...

Youthful idealism turns to indiscriminate fury in The Baader Meinhof Complex, a movie that will divide audiences — and not just along political lines. True, left-leaning viewers are more likely to ...

In the early 1970s, the extreme left wing Baader-Meinhof Gang terrorized the people of West Germany with a campaign of bombings and assassinations aimed at dismantling a capitalist system they ...

Baader-Meinhof phenomenon. It’s got an unusual name, that’s for sure. Even if you’ve never heard of it, chances are that you’ve experienced this interesting phenomenon, or you soon will. In short, ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. IF YOU believe the personal and political are linked inextricably, it's tempting to argue it all began on the day that Ulrike Meinhof ...

Starring Martina Gedeck, Moritz Bleibtreu, Johanna Wokalek, Nadja Uhl, Jan Josef Liefers, Stipe Erceg, Alexandra Maria Lara and Bruno Ganz. Reported to be the most expensive production in German film ...