Regie:
Andres VeielScenario:
Andres VeielCamera:
Judith KaufmannMuziek:
Annette FocksActeurs:
August Diehl, Lena Lauzemis, Alexander Fehling, Thomas Thieme, Susanne Lothar, Rainer Bock, Maria Dragus, Joachim Paul Assböck, Hark Bohm, Imogen Kogge (meer)Samenvattingen(1)
West Germany in the early 1960s. The country is quiet – for the time being. Bernward Vesper takes up his studies in Tübingen where he is attending Walter Jens' seminar on rhetoric. Bernward wants to be a writer and spends his nights bashing the keys of a typewriter. At the same time he is keen to defend his father, the poet Will Vesper who was celebrated by the Nazis as a proponent of their 'Blood and Soil' ideology. The land where Bernward lives is being suffocated by its past. The war has only been over for fifteen years, old Nazis are back in positions of power, and nobody is prepared to talk about war crimes; the Republic is standing to attention. One day Bernward meets Gudrun Ensslin and her friend Dörte. Before long, the three friends are living together in a ménage à trois. But their three-way relationship doesn't last long. It soon transpires that Gudrun and Bernward are twin souls. This marks the beginning of an extreme relationship that is unquestioning and excessive, a love story that goes beyond the threshold of pain. Setting out together to conquer the world, the pair arrives in West Berlin in 1964 where they become part of the left-wing bo-ho set. When the Social Democratic Party agrees to form a grand coalition with the Christian Democratic Union, Bernward and Gudrun are not the only ones who decide to join the Extraparliamentary Opposition movement. Gudrun and Bernward become part of a social and political upheaval that soon takes hold around the globe: liberation movements, student protests and the Black Panther movement in the USA; drugs and rock 'n' roll. The course of history is inexorable but, at the time, for a moment, it looks as if it might be possible to change its path. If not us, who? And when, if not now? And then another man, Andreas Baader, appears on the scene... (Berlinale)
(meer)Acteurs
![August Diehl](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/778/162778239_eb30c1.png)
August Diehl
West-Duitsland
Beste films:
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Frau Ella (2013)
Master i Margarita (2023)
![Lena Lauzemis](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/412/412621_4f5771.jpg)
Lena Lauzemis
Beste films:
Sonnenallee (1999)
Herbert (2015)
Wer wenn nicht wir (2011)
![Alexander Fehling](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/456/456102_1b6626.jpg)
Alexander Fehling
Oost-Duitsland
Beste films:
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Der Hauptmann (2017)
Im Labyrinth des Schweigens (2014)
![Thomas Thieme](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/093/886/93886078_f8c306.jpg)
Thomas Thieme
Duitsland
Beste films:
Das Leben der Anderen (2006)
Der Baader Meinhof Komplex (2008)
Der Untergang (2004)
![Susanne Lothar](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/991/159991579_6fe88f.jpg)
Susanne Lothar
West-Duitsland
Beste films:
The Reader (2008)
Das weiße Band (2009)
Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989) (serie)
![Rainer Bock](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/018/366/18366256_4081f2.jpg)
Rainer Bock
West-Duitsland
Beste films:
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Werk ohne Autor (2018)
Das weiße Band (2009)
![Maria Dragus](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/214/160214429_69eefb.jpg)
Maria Dragus
Roemenië
Beste films:
Das weiße Band (2009)
Tannbach (2015) (serie)
24 Wochen (2016)
![Joachim Paul Assböck](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/909/159909700_551e46.jpg)
Joachim Paul Assböck
West-Duitsland
Beste films:
Schindler's List (1993)
The Pianist (2002)
Der Baader Meinhof Komplex (2008)
![Hark Bohm](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/289/162289356_65055c.jpg)
Hark Bohm
Duitse Rijk
Beste films:
Knockin' on Heaven's Door (1997)
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (serie)
Underground (1995)
![Imogen Kogge](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/157/800/157800148_3472fe.jpg)
Imogen Kogge
Beste films:
Nachtgestalten (1999)
Barfuss (2005)
Russendisko (2012)
![Hanno Koffler](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/612/159612341_a3f1cc.jpg)
Hanno Koffler
West-Duitsland
Beste films:
Werk ohne Autor (2018)
Die Dasslers - Pioniere, Brüder und Rivalen (2015) (Tv-film)
Besondere Schwere der Schuld (2014) (Tv-film)
![Sebastian Blomberg](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/452/452530_23b262.jpg)
Sebastian Blomberg
West-Duitsland
Beste films:
Maximilian: Das Spiel von Macht und Liebe (2017) (serie)
Curveball (2020)
Der Baader Meinhof Komplex (2008)
![Johannes Allmayer](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/169/055/169055553_7vsb8i.jpg)
Johannes Allmayer
West-Duitsland
Beste films:
Werk ohne Autor (2018)
Colonia (2015)
Vincent will Meer (2010)
![Greta Bohacek](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/165/844/165844454_c8458c.jpg)
Greta Bohacek
Duitsland
Beste films:
La cérémonie (1995)
Freddy/Eddy (2016)
Wer wenn nicht wir (2011)
![Martin Butzke](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/999/158999108_949740.jpg)
Martin Butzke
West-Duitsland
Beste films:
Der Untergang (2004)
Shoppen (2006)
Jud Süss - Film ohne Gewissen (2010)
![Christina Hecke](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/304/160304645_9907d9.jpg)
Christina Hecke
West-Duitsland
Beste films:
Barbara (2012)
Isi & Ossi (2020)
Allmen (2017) (serie)
![Vicky Krieps](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/163/828/163828264_228ade.jpg)
Vicky Krieps
Luxemburg
Beste films:
Colonia (2015)
3 Days in Quiberon (2018)
House of Boys (2009)
![Stephanie Stremler](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/288/159288715_6c4716.jpg)
Stephanie Stremler
West-Duitsland
Beste films:
The Cakemaker (2017)
The Book Thief (2013)
Wer wenn nicht wir (2011)
![Björn von der Wellen](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/328/159328969_d5c3e9.jpg)
Björn von der Wellen
Beste films:
Leanders letzte Reise (2017)
Wer wenn nicht wir (2011)
Die vierte Macht (2012)
![Irene Rindje](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/330/160330555_f709f4.jpg)
Irene Rindje
West-Duitsland
Beste films:
Vier Minuten (2006)
Toni Erdmann (2016)
Fack ju Göhte (2013)