Germany in Autumn ratings (Movie, 1978)
Rank | 30,497 / 235,099 |
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Genres | Documentary, Drama |
Total votes | 1,413 |
Average rating | 6.9 / 10 |
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 ...
Directors: Alexander Kluge, Alf Brustellin, Bernhard Sinkel, Edgar Reitz, Katja Rupé, Maximiliane Mainka, Peter Schubert, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Volker Schlöndorff Writers: Alexander Kluge, Alf Brustellin, Bernhard Sinkel, Edgar Reitz, Heinrich Böll, Katja Rupé, Maximiliane Mainka, Peter F. Steinbach, Peter Schubert, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Volker Schlöndorff History (tracking since March 7, 2020) Note: amount of total votes may decrease due to periodic removal of fraudulent ones. Related MoviesTotal votes: 659,112
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