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The Baader-Meinhof Gang on Trial

1986

107 minutes

DramaHistoryActionCrime

Overview

Based on the research for his non-fiction book "Der Baader-Meinhoff-Komplex", "Spiegel" journalist Stefan Aust wrote the screen play to Reinhard Hauff’s controversial feature film that re-narrates the startling trial against the RAF terrorists Baader, Meinhoff, Ensslin, and Raspe. The trial that started in May 1975 in the Stammheim maximum-security prison extended over 192 days and ended with a lifetime sentence for all defendants.

Top Cast

Ulrich Tukur headshot

Ulrich Tukur

Andreas Baader

Therese Affolter headshot

Therese Affolter

Ulrike Meinhof

Ulrich Pleitgen headshot

Ulrich Pleitgen

Theodor Prinzing

Hans-Michael Rehberg headshot

Hans-Michael Rehberg

Siegfried Buback

Dominique Horwitz headshot

Dominique Horwitz

Zeuge

Sabine Wegner headshot

Sabine Wegner

Gudrun Ensslin

Hans Kremer headshot

Hans Kremer

Jan-Carl Raspe

Peter Danzeisen headshot

Peter Danzeisen

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Holger Mahlich headshot

Holger Mahlich

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Horst Mendroch headshot

Horst Mendroch

Bundesanwalt

Alexander Duda headshot

Alexander Duda

Reporter

Hans Christian Rudolph headshot

Hans Christian Rudolph

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Peter Maertens headshot

Peter Maertens

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