Germany in Autumn
6.2
1978
2h 3m
DocumentaryDrama
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.
Key Crew
Director
Alf Brustellin
Producers
Theo Hinz
Eberhard Junkersdorf
Writers
Heinrich Böll
Alf Brustellin
Hans Peter Cloos
Cinematography
Michael Ballhaus
Cast (24)
Hannelore Hoger
Gabi Teichert
Angela Winkler
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