This is the first post in an ongoing series in which I will try to put together an overview of resources and reviews for individual European films. Hopefully it will both be of  help to people studying the film and teachers using it as teaching aid in Schools and Universities, as well as for people who might just want more info on the film.

Baader-Meinhof Komplex is the first film looked at -

BAADER-MEINHOF KOMPLEX (18) 2008  GERMANY   EDEL, ULI    £17.99

Berlin in 1967, a horrific riot inspires Ulrike Meinhof to join forces with Andreas Baader to fight the West German state. The pair moves from activism into terrorism, and form and  lead the revolutionary terrorist organisation  Red Army Faction (RAF)., who fight the West German state  in a misguided attempt to redress the wrongs of the Nazi generation.

In German with English subtitles

Dvd available to buy at –https://www.worldonlinecinema/Home/german-films-on-dvd

Links to resources -

GERMAN LANGUAGE STUDY GUIDE -

https://sites.google.com/site/onlinefilmresources/home/web-link-filing-cabinet/baader-meinhof-komplex-2008-germany-edel-www-worldonlinecinema-com

GERMAN LANGUAGE WORK MATERIAL  -

https://sites.google.com/site/onlinefilmresources/home/web-link-filing-cabinet/baader-meinhof-komplex-arbeitsmaterial-zum-film-www-worldonlinecinema-com

KEY TERMS -

http://germanfilm.co.uk/files/2013/08/BMK-Key-Terms.pdf

TRANSCRIPTS -

http://germanfilm.co.uk/files/2013/08/Baader-Meinhof-Complex-Transcript.pdf

POINTS OF DISCUSSION  -

http://germanfilm.co.uk/files/2013/08/BMK-Points-for-Discussion.pdf

http://germanfilm.co.uk/files/2013/07/BMK-Points-for-Discussion-2.pdf

PRESS REVIEWS -

New York Times –http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/16/movies/16kapl.html?_r=2&

Vanity Fair review – http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/08/hitchens-guerrillas200908

Die Welt German language review -

http://www.welt.de/kultur/article2459708/Der-grosse-Baader-Meinhof-Konsens.html

FACEBOOK PAGE -

https://www.facebook.com/TheBaaderMeinhofComplex

A companion piece to the Der Baader Meinhof Komplex is the following film -

WER WENN NICHT WIR?/IF NOT US, WHO? (15) 2011 GERMANY    VEIEL, ANDRES            £15.99

    Fictionalised portrait of the tumultuous relationship between two 1970s German left-wing political militants: Bernward Vesper (August Diehl) and Gudrun Ensslin (Lena Lauzemis). As Gudrun becomes more and more politically involved, the couple’s relationship comes under increasing strain and she eventually leaves Bernward and their baby son for the charismatic political rebel Andres Baader (Alexander Fehling); founder of the Red Army Faction terrorist group depicted in the 2008 film ‘The Baader-Meinhof Complex’.

In German with English subtitles

Dvd available to buy at – https://www.worldonlinecinema/Home/german-films-on-dvd

STUDY GUIDE TO THE FILM -https://sites.google.com/site/onlinefilmresources/home/web-link-filing-cabinet/wer-wenn-nicht-wir-if-not-us-who-2011-germany-veiel-www-worldonlinecinema-com

OTHER LINKS –

FRENCH,  GERMAN, SPANISH AND ITALIAN FILM RESOURCE PAGE -

http://www.worldonlinecinema/Home/online-resources-listed-by-film