GR-D004-1978

Deutschland im Herbst (Germany in Autumn)

Video

VHS

German

No

Available

"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 both the kidnapping and a later 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." Notes: "Five german directors including Fassbinder present segments -- an outcry against hysteria, hypocrisy, and inhumanity.". Director: Alf Brustellin/Hans Peter Cloos. Color. Country: West Germany. Subtitled.