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The film [[BasedOnATrueStory depicts the story]] of the UsefulNotes/{{West German|y}} [[WesternTerrorists far-left extremist group]] known as the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army_Faction Red Army Faction]] (German: ''Rote Armee Fraktion'', or RAF), led by Ulrike Meinhof (Creator/MartinaGedeck), Andreas Baader (Creator/MoritzBleibtreu) and Gudrun Ensslin (Creator/JohannaWokalek) as they went from radicalized idealists to terrorists committing increasingly senseless and brutal acts of violence with the UsefulNotes/ColdWar as distant backdrop. It also depicts the methodical manhunt by the West German police to stop them, led by Horst Herold (Creator/BrunoGanz).

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The film [[BasedOnATrueStory depicts the story]] of the UsefulNotes/{{West German|y}} [[WesternTerrorists far-left extremist group]] known as the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army_Faction Red Army Faction]] (German: ''Rote Armee Fraktion'', or RAF), led by Ulrike Meinhof (Creator/MartinaGedeck), Andreas Baader (Creator/MoritzBleibtreu) and Gudrun Ensslin (Creator/JohannaWokalek) as they went from radicalized idealists to terrorists committing increasingly senseless and brutal acts of violence in The70s with the UsefulNotes/ColdWar as distant backdrop. It also depicts the methodical manhunt by the West German police to stop them, led by Horst Herold (Creator/BrunoGanz).

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* ActionDuo: Andreas Baader and his girlfriend, Gudrun Ensslin. Later Brigitte Mohnhaupt and Peter Boock.


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* BattleCouple: Andreas Baader and his girlfriend, Gudrun Ensslin. Later Brigitte Mohnhaupt and Peter Boock.

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* NaziGrandpa: One of the central elements of the RAF's beliefs is that the older generation (that of their parents, mostly) let Nazism happen and even took part to it (which was true, especially about state servants that were needed to rebuild the country's administration after 1945) and got no comeuppance for it, hence their use of fascism-related words to describe both that generation and the West German form of government and justice.

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* NaziGrandpa: One of the central elements of the RAF's beliefs is that the older generation (that of their parents, mostly) let Nazism happen and even took part to it (which was true, especially (especially about state servants that were needed to rebuild the country's administration after 1945) and got no comeuppance for it, hence their use of fascism-related words to describe both that generation and the West German form of government and justice.



* PoliceBrutality: The Berlin police attack students protesting the visit by the Shah of Iran at the beginning of the film, and one is shot to death, sparking the left-wing terrorist groups' actions. Later on Holger Meins is beaten by police after he's arrested.

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* OutlawCouple: Baader and Ensslin, who are both terrorists and lovers.
* PoliceBrutality: The Berlin police attack students protesting the visit by the Shah of Iran UsefulNotes/{{Iran}} at the beginning of the film, and one is shot to death, sparking the left-wing terrorist groups' actions. Later on Holger Meins is beaten by police after he's arrested.
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* ShownTheirWork: For the most part averted. The film is widely praised amongst historians for by and large sticking to the historical accounts and sources surrounding the RAF and their deeds. However some have noted that it's PoliticallyCorrectHistory, especially the details surrounding Stammhein prison.

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* ShownTheirWork: For the most part averted. The film is widely praised amongst historians for for, by and large large, sticking to the historical accounts and sources surrounding the RAF and their deeds. However some have noted that it's PoliticallyCorrectHistory, especially the details surrounding Stammhein prison.

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* ShownTheirWork: For the most part averted. The film is widely praised amongst historians for by and large sticking to the historical accounts and sources surrounding the RAF and their deeds. However some have noted that it's PoliticallyCorrectHistory, especially the details surrounding Stammhein prison.



* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: For the most part averted. The film is widely praised amongst historians for by and large sticking to the historical accounts and sources surrounding the RAF and their deeds. However some have noted that it's PoliticallyCorrectHistory, especially the details surrounding Stammhein prison.



* VillainProtagonist: The RAF against what they view as an imperialistic, corporate, ex-Nazi dominated police state.

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* VillainProtagonist: The RAF against what commits increasingly violent and bloody attacks in a country that they view as an imperialistic, corporate, ex-Nazi dominated police state.



* YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters: the RAF isn't without it sympathizers and supporters in West Germany.

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* YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters: the The RAF isn't without it sympathizers and supporters in West Germany.
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The film [[BasedOnATrueStory depicts the story]] of the UsefulNotes/{{West German|y}} [[WesternTerrorists far-left extremist group]] known as the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army_Faction Red Army Faction]] (German: ''Rote Armee Fraktion'', or RAF), led by Ulrike Meinhof (Creator/MartinaGedeck), Andreas Baader (Creator/MoritzBleibtreu) and Gudrun Ensslin (Johanna Wokalek) as they went from radicalized idealists to terrorists committing increasingly senseless and brutal acts of violence with the UsefulNotes/ColdWar as distant backdrop. It also depicts the methodical manhunt by the West German police to stop them, led by Horst Herold (Creator/BrunoGanz).

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The film [[BasedOnATrueStory depicts the story]] of the UsefulNotes/{{West German|y}} [[WesternTerrorists far-left extremist group]] known as the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army_Faction Red Army Faction]] (German: ''Rote Armee Fraktion'', or RAF), led by Ulrike Meinhof (Creator/MartinaGedeck), Andreas Baader (Creator/MoritzBleibtreu) and Gudrun Ensslin (Johanna Wokalek) (Creator/JohannaWokalek) as they went from radicalized idealists to terrorists committing increasingly senseless and brutal acts of violence with the UsefulNotes/ColdWar as distant backdrop. It also depicts the methodical manhunt by the West German police to stop them, led by Horst Herold (Creator/BrunoGanz).

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