• Martina Gedeck as Ulrike Meinhof
• Moritz Bleibtreu as Andreas Baader
• Johanna Wokalek as Gudrun Ensslin
• Bruno Ganz as Horst Herold
• Stipe Erceg as Holger Meins
• Jan Josef Liefers as Peter Homann
• Alexandra Maria Lara as Petra Schelm
• Nadja Uhl as Brigitte Mohnhaupt
• Simon Licht as Horst Mahler
• Hannah Herzsprung as Susanne Albrecht
• Vinzenz Kiefer as Peter-Jurgen Boock
• Daniel Lommatzsch as Christian Klar
• Niels-Bruno Schmidt as Jan Carl Raspe
• Katharina Wackernagel as Astrid Proll
• Annika Kuhl as Irmgard Moller

"There is a real problem with a film that, although thoroughly researched and directed with integrity, struggles to move the audience. If we can’t connect with Meinhof, Baader and Ensslin, the three RAF members who are given a substantial back story, how can we care about the numerous interchangeable later members who take centre stage once the key players have been imprisoned?"Times Online: The Baader Meinhof Complex Review (November 13, 2008)

"Does this (film) glamorise terrorism? I think not, though it skates fairly near the edge at times. What it certainly does is remind us that understandable causes are sometimes driven into impotence and thus pushed towards an escalating violence that those who espouse them never imagined. That’s why this impressively mounted and thoroughly researched film is so watchable, whatever one’s views about its fanatical participants.This is London: Terror and Glamour in The Baader Meinhof Complex (November 13, 2008)