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: Hans Peter Cloos, Maximiliane Mainka, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Alexander Kluge, Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus, Alf Brustellin, Katja Rupé, Volker Schlöndorff, Edgar Reitz, Bernhard Sinkel, Peter Schubert
Director of Photography: Colin Mounier, Dietrich Lohmann, Werner Lüring, Michael Ballhaus, Jürgen Jürges, Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein, Bodo Kessler, Günther Hörmann
Screenplay: Maximiliane Mainka, Peter Steinbach, Alf Brustellin, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Volker Schlöndorff, Heinrich Böll, Hans Peter Cloos, Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus, Edgar Reitz, Peter Schubert, Katja Rupé, Bernhard Sinkel, Alexander Kluge
Producer: Theo Hinz, Eberhard Junkersdorf
Top Cast
Hannelore Hoger
Gabi Teichert
Angela Winkler
Antigone
Vadim Glowna
Freiermuth
Katja Rupé
Franziska Busch
Heinz Bennent
Mitglied des Kommitees
Wolf Biermann
Self
Joachim Bißmeier
TV-Redakteur
Helmut Griem
TV-Redakteur
