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.

Baader, Meinhof, Meins, Ensslin and Raspe were arrested in June 1972, convicted after a trial that would run until 1977, and incarcerated in the high-security Stammheim prison.

Just a coincidence? Here’s Gigetto on Lincoln on The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon: “Many years ago, I identified a phenomenon so startling and so broad in its application that it encompasses the ...

Constantin Film Verleih GmbHJohanna Wokalek as Gudrun Esselin and Moritz Bleibtreu as Andreas Baader in "The Baader Meinhof Complex." "The Baader Meinhof Complex" Movie Review -- They called ...

In this “Baader Meinhof” is helped by a strong cast of some of the best actors in Germany, who also in many cases resemble the people they are playing.

Though these sorts of terms are usually named after the person who coined them, this one was named after a German terrorist group, the Baader-Meinhof gang.

In the 1970s, Germany was transfixed by the outlaw Baader-Meinhof Gang, terrorists who robbed banks, set off explosives, kidnapped, assassinated and otherwise attempted to bring the government to ...

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 ...

The Baader Meinhof Complex. By keeping an intense focus on the women of the Baader Meinhof Gang, the film achieves a moving character study amid breakneck action that feels surprisingly accurate.

LIKE THE NAME of the West German radical terrorist organization whose tale it tells, “The Baader Meinhof Complex” is a fascinating hybrid of a film. Even though its purpose couldn’t be more ...