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Germany in Autumn
Original Title
Deutschland im Herbst- Director: Alf Brustellin; Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Writer: Heinrich Böll; Alf Brustellin
- Producer: Theo Hinz; Eberhard Junkersdorf
CGiii Comment
The first 26 minutes is credited to a grubby-looking Fassbinder who directs and acts...in a grubby apartment with his well-endowed partner...bizarre and dirty.
The remaining film is a hot-potch of archival material - bizarrely edited together to produce a fragmented perspective on terrorism...
It depicts a dark period in contemporary German history - unfortunately, the film is as dull as ditch water.
If you know nothing about the politics behind the story, then...this will be incomprehensible.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
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 Faction). 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 Enslin, and Jean-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. The movie has several vignettes, including an extended set of scenes with the famous director Rainer Werner Fassbinder discussing his feelings about Germany's political situation.
Cast & Characters
Wolfgang Bachler;
Heinz Bennent as TV committee member;
Wolf Biermann as Himself;
Joachim Bissmeier;
Caroline Chaniolleau;
Hans Peter Cloos as Foreigner;
Otto Friebel;
Hildegard Friese;
Michael Gahr;
Vadim Glowna as Freiermuth;
Helmut Griem as Mahler's interviewer;
Hannelore Hoger as Gabi Teichert;
Petra Kiener;
Dieter Laser as TV committee member;
Horst Mahler as Himself;
Rainer Werner Fassbinder