THE BAADER MEINHOF COMPLEX opens 9/4 in Bay Area September 4, 2009

THE BAADER MEINHOF COMPLEX
German drama of real-life 1970s terrorist group Red Army Faction

Opens September 4, 2009
Landmark’s Embarcadero Center Cinema, One Embarcadero Center, San Francisco (415) 276-4893
Showtimes (valid 9/4-10): Fri- Thu at 1:40, 4:50, 8:00
http://www.landmarktheatres.com

Rafael Film Center in San Rafael, 1118 Fourth Street, San Rafael (415) 454-1222
Showtimes (valid 9/4-10): Fri at 4:30, 7:30, Sat-Mon at 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, Tue-Thu at 7:30
http://www.cafilm.org/rfc/

Also opens September 11, 2009
Landmark’s Shattuck Cinema, 2230 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley (510) 464-5980
Landmark’s Aquarius Theatre, 430 Emerson Street, Palo Alto (650) 266-9260
And at CineArts in Pleasant Hill, and Santana Row in San Jose

THE BAADER MEINHOF COMPLEX, the 2009 Academy Award ® and Golden Globe nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, was written and produced by Bernd Eichinger (2005 Academy Award nominee, Downfall) and directed by Uli Edel (Last Exit to Brooklyn, Christiane F). The film dramatizes the history of the real-life West German terrorist group Red Army Faction (RAF), which rose to violent action against the German political status quo in the late 1960s. Led by Ulrike Meinhof, a prominent journalist who forfeited her career and children to engage in anti-authoritarian and anti-capitalist acts of resistance, and Andreas Baader, the group's youthful members went underground, sacrificing leading normal lives, to fight for a more human society - through terrorist bombings and bloodshed. These were the radicalized children of Germany's Nazi generation and they were hell-bent on never allowing anything like Nazism to rise to power again.

THE BAADER MEINHOF COMPLEX's ensemble cast includes, Martina Gedeck (The Lives of Others, The Good Shepherd), Moritz Bleibtreu (Run Lola Run), Johanna Wokalek (Aimee and Jaguar) and Bruno Ganz (The Reader, Downfall). Based on Stefan Aust's critically acclaimed non-fiction book Der Baader-Meinhof Komplex, the film was Constantin Film's biggest box office success in 2008.

http://www.baadermeinhofmovie.com/

“Brilliantly made and utterly compelling from beginning to end.” – Mark Demetrius, FILMINK

“Among the greatest of the recent new wave of German films.” – Ali Catterall, Channel 4 Film

“Fascinating history, very good movie.” – Kim Newman, Empire Magazine

Award Nominations
2009 Academy Award ® nominee for Best Foreign Language Film
2009 Golden Globe nominee for Best Foreign Language Film
2009 BAFTA nominee for Best Film Not in the English Language

The film’s running time is 144 minutes; it is rated R. In German, fully subtitled in English.

Official Website: http://www.baadermeinhofmovie.com/