CommentsXp Best movie ever!

Ogosmith Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Horst in Translation ([email protected]) "Baader" is an almost 15-year-old film by editor, writer and director Christopher Roth. The film runs for slightly under 2 hours and stars the late Frank Giering as the title character. Also in here is the (also late) Vadim Glowna playing one of the biggest supporting characters and Hinnerk Schönemann, a personal favorite of mine. If you know a bit about German history, you certainly have heard of Andreas Baader, the most feared left-wing terrorist a couple decades ago during the days of the RAF, Red Army Fraction. Unfortunately, this movie here is (unlike the Oscar-nominated "Baader Meinhof Komplex") not historically accurate at all, but almost in its entirety a work of fiction, not only in terms of the final moments of Baader and the movie. Yes there were other characters that existed and played a major role back then, but this is basically it.However, this is not why I did not manage to appreciate this one. I personally felt that it was just trying so hard to be shocking and controversial that it forgot to tell a really captivating story. The inclusion of terrorist attacks felt fairly random and definitely could have been elaborated on in a more impressive manner. Also the movie felt way too long. I think they should have kept it at maybe 95 minutes as this way the focus could have been clearly superior than it finally was. It is tough for me to find a reason to really recommend this one, be it in terms of storytelling or historic significance. This just wasn't a good watch. Thumbs down.

rolf_wilms This film was exciting to me because it has a lot of ingredients I like.First, there is that 70ies feeling throughout. It is created by the 70ies scenery, cars of that time, music of that time, haircuts, cloths, even the colors are kind of 70ies wash-out.The carnival scenes remind me of "Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum", which plays in Cologne, just like the band Can featuring two of the songs (Swim Swan Song and Spoon).The film is dense, relaxed but still full of tension. You see what an asshole Baader is, but still you may develop some positive feelings for him.Its like a mixture of a "Tatort" and a Fassbinder, almost if Fassbinder had created a "Tatort".The film is a complete demystification of the RAF. The RAF had been given the role of a dangerous threat to Germany, but is shown as a gang of weak persons full of admiration for Andreas Baader, following his commands. Reasons are given why the RAF was given that role (in the media) and that the real threat wouldn't be the Baader-Meinhoff gang but those who are supposed to protect Germany from them.What has puzzled me was the apparent departure from the observed historical truth, in particular in the end. Maybe this was thought as a provocation, to remind you that you cannot rely on being told the truth.

martin-sielaff I was disappointed by this movie, maybe because i had the wrong expectations. My expection was to have a portrait about the person "Andi Baader", maybe how and why he became what he was. But it seems more like drifting away from the historical happenings into an "0815-gangster-movie"... including "a peaceful meeting of the opponents" (the meeting Krone - Baader during night on the road!) the death of Baader is so far away from reality... more in an idealistic gun-hero image "alone against the world" ...the abduction and assassination of Martin Schleyer is missing, too. Baader is an political thriller playing in a moving period of German history, using Names of real RAF-Members, but not displaying it in a historical "retrospective", but in a fictional story

oresteia As far as I knew Baader-Meinhof was some sort of a anarchist group of early 70s. I still think it is like that because the movie did not give me any other information about them. Were they Marxist? If so, were they Maoist, Leninist or else? Well of course, this is not the intention of the movie. The intention is to create a cult around the personality of Baader. Of course The Americans have their bandit heroes like Jessie james, so the Germans had Baader! Baader is also represented as a Steve Mac Queen type of macho guy... But there was ONE MAJOR PROBLEM for the director: Ulrike Meinhof! What are you gonna do with her? After all the gang is named "Baader-Meinhof" and not Baader...So the solution is there: Ignore Ulrike as much as possible. Reduce her to the status of a silly woman who forgets the money bag she steals. And at the end she just disappears like that! And as far as other female figures are concerned, you just show them as weak, cheeky girls who joined the gang because they fell for Baader. Well, this movie really disappointed and angered me because it tells the story of real people who wanted to create (in their own ways) a fair and Just world. But I don't see the same fairness and justice in the way they are represented. I also think that the end of the film is very funny! Why don't you tell straightforwardly that the guy has committed suicide? And what about this Police chief who cries next to him? Who is gonna believe that?....