Germany in Autumn

Germany in Autumn

Released on
Documentary, Drama
Runtime
123 mins
(28 votes)

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

Similar Movies