Germany in Autumn
Deutschland im Herbst
The film 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 original 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.
Production Countries
Production Companies
Cast
Michael Gahr
Katja Rupé
as Franziska Busch
Heinz Bennent
as Mitglied des Kommitees
Franziska Walser
Hannelore Hoger
as Gabi Teichert
Wolf Biermann
as Self
Margarethe von Trotta
as Self (uncredited)
Angela Winkler
as Antigone
Vadim Glowna
as Freiermuth
Joachim Bißmeier
as TV-Redakteur
Dieter Laser
as Abgeordneter (TV Aufsichtsgremium)
Horst Mahler
as Self
Mario Adorf
as TV committee member (uncredited)
Caroline Chaniolleau
Hans Peter Cloos
Helmut Griem
as TV-Redakteur
Manfred Zapatka
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
as Self (uncredited)
Crew
Heinrich Böll
Screenplay
Ennio Morricone
Music
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Director, Screenplay
Volker Schlöndorff
Director, Screenplay
Alexander Kluge
Director, Screenplay
Michael Ballhaus
Director of Photography
Hans Peter Cloos
Director, Screenplay
Bernhard Sinkel
Director, Screenplay
Jürgen Jürges
Director of Photography
Edgar Reitz
Screenplay, Director
Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein
Director of Photography
Alf Brustellin
Director, Screenplay
Katja Rupé
Screenplay, Director