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Third Generation (The)

Country: Germany, Language: German, 105 mins

Original Title

Die dritte Generation
  • Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Writer: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Producer: Harry Baer; Rainer Werner Fassbinder

CGiii Comment

A very difficult film indeed.

With Fassbinder, it's always hit or miss - depending on your own artistic bent and degree of anger.

Fassbinder was an angry (and miserable) man. This is a comedy - and, it is funny for those that find nothing funny in the world.

The actors don't act...they hit their marks and deliver lines - a Fassbinder trademark.

The sound is cacophonous throughout, the editing is abrupt and clumsy...the film is a saddling bore because Fassbinder has done/wrote it all, many times, before.


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The(ir) Blurb...

A mogul merrily funds terrorists to boost his computer sales, by panicking West German government and industry c. 1980, as the third generation of Western European left-wing activists forms, after crippling of the violent Red Army Faction. Released in 1979, largely unavailable until 2004. International kapitalist PJ Lurz's secretary is a gang member, while her Polizeikommissar father-in-law/lover hired Lurz' corporate security force.

Cast & Characters

Harry Baer as Rudolf Mann;
Hark Bohm as Gerhard Gast;
Margit Carstensen as Petra Vielhaber;
Eddie Constantine as P. J. Lurz;
Jurgen Draeger as Hans Vielhaber;
Raul Gimenez as Paul;
Claus Holm as Opa Gast;
Gunther Kaufmann as Franz Walsch;
Udo Kier as Edgar Gast;
Bulle Ogier as Hilde Krieger;
Lilo Pempeit as Mutter Gast;
Hanna Schygulla as Susanne Gast;
Volker Spengler as August;
Y Sa Lo as Ilse Hoffmann;
Vitus Zeplichal as Bernhard von Stein