Germany in Autumn

03/03/1978

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2hrs 3min

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Documentary

,Drama

STORY

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.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Hannelore Hoger
  • Angela Winkler
  • Vadim Glowna
  • Katja Rupé
  • Heinz Bennent

    Directors

  • Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Alf Brustellin
  • Alexander Kluge
  • Edgar Reitz
  • Peter Schubert

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • ABS Filmproduktion
  • Tango Film
  • Kairos-Film

    Production Countries

  • Germany

LANGUAGES

  • German