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Germany in Autumn

Germany in Autumn

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Germany in Autumn has no typical plot; it mixes documentary footage with standard movie scenes to present the mood of Germany during the late 1970s. The film covers 2 months in 1977 when a businessman was kidnapped and murdered by the left-wing terrorists known as the RAF-Rote Armee Fraktion (Red Army Faction). The businessman was 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. The film has several vignettes, including an extended set of scenes with famous director Rainer Werner Fassbinder discussing his feelings about Germany's political situation at the time. Fassbinder's scenes almost seem to be candid documentary footage, but they aren't. Other scenes include documentary footage of the joint funeral of Baader, Enslin, and Raspe.

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A star rating of 3 out of 5.

David Parkinson

With its title bitterly evoking the idealism of Heimat, this portmanteau piece is an instant (and, thus, understandably emotive) reaction to the events that rocked West Germany in the autumn of 1977: the storming of the hijacked plane at Mogadishu; the mysterious deaths of the Baader-Meinhof trio at Stammheim jail; and the murder of kidnapped industrialist Hans Martin Schleyer. Supervised by the father of New German cinema, Alexander Kluge, it's a mix of fictional and documentary vignettes from nine leading film-makers, with Rainer Werner Fassbinder's chilling conversation with his pro-authoritarian mother and Volker Schlöndorff's media spoof being the highlights.

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6.8/10

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Cast

rolenameTBCHannelore HogerTBCKatja RupéTBCHans Peter CloosTBCAngela WinklerTBCFranzisca WalserTBCVadim GlownaTBCHelmut GriemTBCDieter Laser

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Crew

rolenameDirectorAlf BrustellinDirectorBernhard SinkelDirectorHans Peter CloosDirectorKatja RupéDirectorRainer Werner FassbinderDirectorAlexander KlugeDirectorBeate Mainka-JellinghausDirectorMaximiliane MainkaDirectorPeter SchubertDirectorEdgar ReitzDirectorVolker Schlöndorff

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Theatrical distributor

Uforic Pictures

Languages

German

Formats

Colour

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