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.

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Cast

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