Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 149 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- German
- Country
- Czechia, France, Germany
- Violence
- Strong
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
- In German — subtitles on.
The story
When German police viciously quell a protest against the shah of Iran, popular journalist Ulrike Meinhof rebels against her dishonest marriage, walks away from her children and joins radical anarchist Andreas Baader. Together with Baader's girlfriend, Gudrun Ensslin, they form the violent Red Faction Army, and together perpetrate a slew of terrorist attacks as a way of disrupting the fabric of what they see as an increasingly fascist state.
- suicide
- 1970s
- hostage-taking
- trial
- prison escape
- terrorism
- terrorist plot
- government cover-up
- government conspiracy
- leftist radicalism
The bill
Martina Gedeck
Ulrike Meinhof
Moritz Bleibtreu
Andreas Baader
Johanna Wokalek
Gudrun Ensslin
Nadja Uhl
Brigitte Mohnhaupt
- Stipe Erceg — Holger Meins
- Niels-Bruno Schmidt — Jan Karl Raspe
- Vinzenz Kiefer — Peter-Jürgen Boock
- Simon Licht — Horst Mahler
- Alexandra Maria Lara — Petra Schelm
- Bruno Ganz — Horst Herold
- Heino Ferch — Herolds Assistent
- Daniel Lommatzsch — Christian Klar
- Sebastian Blomberg — Rudi Dutschke
- Jan Josef Liefers — Peter Homann
- Hannah Herzsprung — Susanne Albrecht
- Directed
- Uli Edel
- Written
- Uli Edel, Bernd Eichinger
Production
- Rating
- 7.0 / 10 · 663 ratings
- Studio
- G.T. Film Production, ARD Degeto, NDR, Dune Films, WDR, BR
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