Germany in Autumn (1978-03-03)
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.
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Status: Released
Release Date: 1978-03-03
Runtime: 2h 3m
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus, Alf Brustellin, Hans Peter Cloos, Alexander Kluge, Maximiliane Mainka, Edgar Reitz, Katja Rupé, Volker Schlöndorff, Peter Schubert, Bernhard Sinkel
Writer: Maximiliane Mainka, Edgar Reitz, Peter Schubert, Katja Rupé, Alexander Kluge, Peter Steinbach, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Hans Peter Cloos, Heinrich Böll, Volker Schlöndorff, Alf Brustellin, Bernhard Sinkel, Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus