"If there were an analogous American story, it would include elements of the Weather Underground, the Manson family, Patty Hearst and the Symbionese Liberation Army and the shootings at Kent State. Picking up the spirit of counter-cultural, anti-authoritarian idealism, only to drive it off the cliff, the German group was like the romanticized rhetoric of the Rolling Stones song 'Street Fighting Man' roaring to fearsome life."
In the Los Angeles Times, Marc Olsen interviews Uli Edel, director of the newly released movie The Baader Meinhof Complex.
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