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.
Martina Gedeck
Moritz Bleibtreu
Johanna Wokalek
Nadja Uhl
Stipe Erceg
Niels-Bruno Schmidt
Vinzenz Kiefer
Simon Licht
Alexandra Maria Lara
Bruno Ganz
Heino Ferch
Daniel Lommatzsch
Sebastian Blomberg
Jan Josef Liefers
Hannah Herzsprung
Tom Schilling
Hans-Werner Meyer
Katharina Wackernagel
Anna Thalbach
Volker Bruch
Jasmin Tabatabai
Thomas Thieme
Susanne Bormann
Michael Gwisdek
Hubert Mulzer
Alexander Held
Bernd Stegemann
Annika Kuhl
Sandra Borgmann
Hannes Wegener
Johannes Suhm
Andreas Tobias
Britta Hammelstein
Christian Blümel
Peter Schneider
Christian Näthe
Martin Glade
Nina Eichinger
Sunnyi Melles
Hans Peter Hallwachs
Joachim Paul Assböck
Samir Fuchs
Michael Schenk
Jona Mues
Wolfgang Pregler
Kirsten Block
Ralph Kretschmar
Bettina Lohmeyer
Rainer Reiners
Esther Seibt
Johanna Bönninghaus
Alexandra Rothert