Documentary Drama
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.
Directed by
Alf Brustellin, Alexander Kluge, Hans Peter Cloos, Maximiliane Mainka, Peter Schubert, Bernhard Sinkel, Katja Rupé, Volker Schlöndorff, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus, Edgar Reitz
Mario Adorf
TV committee member (uncredited)
Manfred Zapatka
Hannelore Hoger
Gabi Teichert
Helmut Griem
TV-Redakteur
Dieter Laser
Abgeordneter (TV Aufsichtsgremium)
Angela Winkler
Antigone
Heinz Bennent
Mitglied des Kommitees
Vadim Glowna
Freiermuth
Franziska Walser
Michael Gahr
Katja Rupé
Franziska Busch
Wolf Biermann
Self
Caroline Chaniolleau
Joachim Bißmeier
TV-Redakteur
Hans Peter Cloos
Horst Mahler
Self
Enno Patalas
Otto Friebel
Hildegard Friese
Lisi Mangold
Eva Meier

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