Germany in Autumn

Mar 3, 1978

2h 3m

★ 6.2

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.

Genres

Documentary

Drama

Production Companies

ABS Filmproduktion

Tango Film

Kairos-Film

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Cast

Gabi Teichert

Hannelore Hoger

Antigone

Angela Winkler

Freiermuth

Vadim Glowna

Franziska Busch

Katja Rupé

Mitglied des Kommitees

Heinz Bennent

Self

Wolf Biermann

TV-Redakteur

Joachim Bißmeier

TV-Redakteur

Helmut Griem

Abgeordneter (TV Aufsichtsgremium)

Dieter Laser

Manfred Zapatka

Self

Horst Mahler

Self (uncredited)

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

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