Movielogr
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
The film 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 original 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 | Caroline Chaniolleau | Hans Peter Cloos | Otto Friebel | Hildegard Friese | Michael Gahr | Petra Kiener | Lisi Mangold | Eva Meier | Enno Patalas | Franziska Walser