La banda Baader Meinhof

A Match That Burned the Germans

FOR most of the 1970s the Baader-Meinhof Gang, a k a the Red Army Faction, terrorized West Germany, robbing banks, bombing military bases and murdering policemen, all in the name of overthrowing what its members saw as “the fascist state.”
“The Baader Meinhof Complex,” a German movie about the gang’s rise and fall, opens on Friday. The subject still haunts many in Germany, and this drama was nominated for best foreign-language film at this year’s Oscars. But few Americans remember the people or events that it depicts. [...]

di Fred Kaplan, articolo completo (7719 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 16 agosto 2009