Germany in Autumn
1978-03-03 | 123 minutes
Plot Summary
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
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Hannelore HogerGabi Teichert
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Angela WinklerAntigone
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Vadim GlownaFreiermuth
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Katja RupéFranziska Busch
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Heinz BennentMitglied des Kommitees
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Wolf BiermannSelf
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Joachim BißmeierTV-Redakteur
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Helmut GriemTV-Redakteur
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Dieter LaserAbgeordneter (TV Aufsichtsgremium)
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Manfred Zapatka
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Horst MahlerSelf
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Rainer Werner FassbinderSelf (uncredited)
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Mario AdorfTV committee member (uncredited)
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Margarethe von TrottaSelf (uncredited)
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Caroline Chaniolleau
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Hans Peter Cloos
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Michael Gahr