Genres
Production Companies
Tango Film
Kairos-Film
Germany in Autumn (Deutschland im Herbst)
Overview
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.
Key Crew
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus, Alf Brustellin, Hans Peter Cloos, Alexander Kluge, Maximiliane Mainka, Edgar Reitz, Katja Rupé, Volker Schlöndorff, Peter Schubert, Bernhard Sinkel
Screenplay: Maximiliane Mainka, Edgar Reitz, Peter Schubert, Katja Rupé, Alexander Kluge, Peter Steinbach, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Hans Peter Cloos, Heinrich Böll, Volker Schlöndorff, Alf Brustellin, Bernhard Sinkel, Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus
Director of Photography: Dietrich Lohmann, Werner Lüring, Colin Mounier, Michael Ballhaus, Bodo Kessler, Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein, Jürgen Jürges, Günther Hörmann
Producer: Theo Hinz, Eberhard Junkersdorf
