Germany in Autumn (1978)
Synopsis
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.
Release Date: 1978-03-03
Runtime: 123 minutes
Director: Alf Brustellin
Top Cast
- Hannelore Hoger as Gabi Teichert
- Angela Winkler as Antigone
- Vadim Glowna as Freiermuth
- Katja Rupé as Franziska Busch
- Heinz Bennent as Mitglied des Kommitees
- Wolf Biermann as Self
- Joachim Bißmeier as TV-Redakteur
- Helmut Griem as TV-Redakteur
- Dieter Laser as Abgeordneter (TV Aufsichtsgremium)
- Manfred Zapatka as
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Original Music Composer(s): N/A
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