The Third Generation
Die dritte Generation
Release: 1979-05-30
·Runtime: 110m
·★ 5.9
Comedy
Crime
Drama
A wildly anarchic satire of guerrilla terrorism in which a band of leftist radicals inadvertently become puppets of the West German government, which uses them to justify its authoritarian policies.
Production Countries
Germany
Production Companies
Tango Film
Filmverlag der Autoren
Pro-ject Filmproduktion
Cast
Harry Baer
as Rudolf Mann
Eddie Constantine
as P. J. Lurz
Margit Carstensen
as Petra Vielhaber
Volker Spengler
as August
Hanna Schygulla
as Susanne Gast
Claus Holm
as Opa Gast
Hark Bohm
as Gerhard Gast
Bulle Ogier
as Hilde Krieger
Günther Kaufmann
as Franz Walsch
Lilo Pempeit
as Mutter Gast
Vitus Zeplichal
as Bernhard von Stein
Udo Kier
as Edgar Gast
Daniel Cohn-Bendit
as Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Peer Raben
as (uncredited)