Germany in Autumn
1978 · 123 MIN · IMDB 6.8 · 1,451 VOTES · DIR. Maximiliane Mainka, Alexander Kluge, Volker Schlöndorff, Hans Peter Cloos, Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus, Peter Schubert, Alf Brustellin, Katja Rupé, Bernhard Sinkel, Edgar Reitz, Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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.
Dialogue Timeline — 148 lines
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01:35:13 This is not about money. We have to think of the viewers.
01:35:42 Violence against the Gauls, violence by the Gauls
01:36:14 Yes, perhaps ... Maybe it's better this way.
01:36:43 or if l'm deceived by a god.
01:37:06 bewailing their wedding which death denied
01:37:34 Without a word he drew his sword and smote, but as the father fled
01:38:01 The dead lies now with the dead
01:39:03 was ''lnto the sewers with them!''
01:39:34 As for the question of the burial of the three dead terrorists ...
01:40:00 of discussions about the proper burial of the terrorists.
01:40:27 People couldn't accept their burial within the walls
01:41:12 lf you look down, you'll see it's been chiseled out of the rock.
01:41:53 And ... uh ... We should accept, don't you think?
01:42:17 that Mr. Ensslin had been turned down for certain reasons.
01:42:42 to put on this funeral meal for him.
01:43:26 COMMlTS SUlClDE (LEBER)
01:45:05 Please stand back to give the family some room.
01:46:42 The cemetery, a former shooting range, is at risk of flooding.
01:47:32 you won't shout, but rather consider what to do.
01:49:41 because a vehicle had been damaged by the participants.
01:54:55 Drive slowly.
01:57:16 lt simply has to stop.''