
Germany in Autumn
- Released on
- Runtime
- 123 mins
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.
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
- Hannelore Hoger
- Angela Winkler
- Vadim Glowna
- Katja Rupé
- Heinz Bennent
- Wolf Biermann
- Joachim Bißmeier
- Helmut Griem
- Dieter Laser
- Manfred Zapatka
- Horst Mahler
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Mario Adorf
- Margarethe von Trotta
- Caroline Chaniolleau
- Hans Peter Cloos
- Otto Friebel
- Hildegard Friese
- Michael Gahr
- Petra Kiener
- Lisi Mangold
- Eva Meier
- Enno Patalas
- Franziska Walser
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
Producers
- Theo Hinz
- Eberhard Junkersdorf
Screenwriter
- 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