Germany in Autumn (1978)
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.
- Volker Schlöndorff
- Bernhard Sinkel
- Edgar Reitz
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Alexander Kluge
- Alf Brustellin
- Hans Peter Cloos
- Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus
- Maximiliane Mainka
- Katja Rupé
- Peter Schubert
Writing:
- Heinrich Böll
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Volker Schlöndorff
Stars:
6.2/10
- Country: DE
- Language: Deutsch
- Runtime: 123
