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Germany in Autumn

1978-2h 3min
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6.2 / 10 28

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 Fraction). 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 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.

Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder Alf Brustellin Hans Peter Cloos

Writers Heinrich Böll Alf Brustellin Hans Peter Cloos

Stars Hannelore Hoger Angela Winkler Vadim Glowna

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Hannelore Hoger

Gabi Teichert
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Angela Winkler

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Vadim Glowna

Freiermuth
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Katja Rupé

Franziska Busch
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Heinz Bennent

Mitglied des Kommitees
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Wolf Biermann

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Joachim Bißmeier

TV-Redakteur
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Helmut Griem

TV-Redakteur
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Dieter Laser

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Manfred Zapatka

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Horst Mahler

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Mario Adorf

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