Germany in Autumn (1978)
Overview
Germany in Autumn 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 orginal 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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| Budget | $0.00 |
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| Revenue | $0.00 |
| Original Language | de |
| Popularity | 4.129 |
Directed By
Hans Peter Cloos
Maximiliane Mainka
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Alexander Kluge
Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus
Alf Brustellin
Katja Rupé
Volker Schlöndorff
Edgar Reitz
Bernhard Sinkel
Peter Schubert
Crew
Hans Peter Cloos
Maximiliane Mainka
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Alexander Kluge
Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus
Alf Brustellin
Colin Mounier
Maximiliane Mainka
Peter Steinbach
Dietrich Lohmann
Alf Brustellin
Theo Hinz
Katja Rupé
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Volker Schlöndorff
Werner Lüring
Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus
Tanja Schmidbauer
Heinrich Böll
Hans Peter Cloos
Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus
Michael Ballhaus
Jürgen Jürges
Edgar Reitz
Peter Schubert
Mulle Goetz-Dickopp
Christine Warnck
Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein
Heidi Genée
Volker Schlöndorff
Bodo Kessler
Edgar Reitz
Bernhard Sinkel
Katja Rupé
Juliane Lorenz
Peter Schubert
Bernhard Sinkel
Alexander Kluge
Eberhard Junkersdorf
Günther Hörmann
Ennio Morricone
TOP CAST
Hannelore Hoger
Gabi Teichert
Angela Winkler
Antigone
Vadim Glowna
Freiermuth
Katja Rupé
Franziska Busch
Heinz Bennent
Mitglied des Kommitees
Wolf Biermann
Self
Joachim Bißmeier
TV-Redakteur
Helmut Griem
TV-Redakteur
Dieter Laser
Abgeordneter (TV Aufsichtsgremium)
Horst Mahler
Self
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Self (uncredited)
Mario Adorf
TV committee member (uncredited)
Margarethe von Trotta
Self (uncredited)
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