Deutschland im Herbst
(1978)
Regisseur:
Alf Brustellin, Hans Peter Cloos, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Alexander Kluge, Beate Mainka-JellinghausSchauspieler:
Hannelore Hoger, Angela Winkler, Vadim Glowna, Katja Rupé, Heinz Bennent, Wolf Biermann, Joachim Bißmeier, Helmut Griem, Dieter Laser, Manfred Zapatka1977 wird der Präsident des Bundesverbands der Arbeitgeber, Hanns-Martin Schleyer, von Mitgliedern der Rote Armee Fraktion entführt und ermordet; in Mogadischu stürmt die GSG-9-Truppe die Lufthansa-Maschine “Landshut”, in Stammheim nehmen sich Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof und Gudrun Ensslin das Leben: In einzelnen Episoden, fiktiver Spielhandlung und dokumentarischen Aufnahmen, nehmen neun Regisseure Stellung zu den Ereignissen.
Neun Regisseure des Neuen Deutschen Films reflektieren die Ereignisse, die im Herbst 1977 Deutschland überschatten.
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.
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.
