In Fiction
- Stammheim - Die Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe vor Gericht ("Stammheim - The Baader-Meinhof Gang on Trial") (1986) a film directed by Reinhard Hauff; with Ulrich Tukur in the role of Andreas Baader; after the book by Stefan Aust. It won the Golden Bear at the 1986 Berlin Film Festival.
- A Fish Called Wanda (1988) - the manic narcissist assassin Otto (played by Kevin Kline) was a parody roughly based on Andreas Baader.
- Todesspiel ("Death Play") (1997) is a TV docudrama by Heinrich Breloer; with Sebastian Koch as Andreas Baader. It is about the kidnapping and later cold-blooded murder of Bundesvereinigung der Deutschen Arbeitgeberverbändeunion (BDA) president Hanns Martin Schleyer.
- In 2002, director Christopher Roth released the film Baader, with Frank Giering in the title role. It covers the period between 1967 and 1972.
- In the 2008 movie Der Baader Meinhof Komplex it was decided that the actor Moritz Bleibtreu who played Baader should not lisp as Baader did.
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Famous quotes containing the word fiction:
“The purpose of a work of fiction is to appeal to the lingering after-effects in the reader’s mind as differing from, say, the purpose of oratory or philosophy which respectively leave people in a fighting or thoughtful mood.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
“If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine.”
—William Gass (b. 1924)