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Germany in Autumn (1978)
Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Volker Schlöndorff, Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus, Bernhard Sinkel, Katja Rupé, Alexander Kluge, Maximiliane Mainka, Alf Brustellin, Hans Peter Cloos, Edgar Reitz, Peter Schubert
Overview
Germany in Autumn does not have a plot per se; it mixes documentary footage, along with standard movie scenes, to give the audience the mood of Germany during the late 1970s. The movie covers the two month time period during 1977 when a businessman was kidnapped, and later murdered, by the left-wing terrorists known as the RAF-Rote Armee Fraktion (Red Army Fraction). The businessman had been kidnapped in an effort to secure the release of the orginal leaders of the RAF, also known as the Baader-Meinhof gang. When the kidnapping effort and a plane hijacking effort failed, the three most prominent leaders of the RAF, Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, and Jan-Carl Raspe, all committed suicide in prison. It has become an article of faith within the left-wing community that these three were actually murdered by the state.
Length 123 minutes
Actors
Hannelore Hoger | Angela Winkler | Vadim Glowna | Katja Rupé | Heinz Bennent | Wolf Biermann | Joachim Bißmeier | Helmut Griem | Dieter Laser | Manfred Zapatka | Horst Mahler | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Mario Adorf | Margarethe von Trotta