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.
01:35:40 was a very instructive piece.
01:36:02 The viewers wouldn't understand it.
01:36:34 Hasten to the tomb and enter through the gap in the wall.
01:36:55 strangled with a noose
01:37:16 Seeing this, the father groaned, and rushed forward to him crying
01:37:43 driving the blade half its length into his chest.
01:38:17 The graves have been protected from rain by corrugated sheets.
01:39:08 that people called for them to be ''buried outside'' and the like.
01:39:38 lt was clear to me that this had to be decided
01:40:00 of discussions about the proper burial of the terrorists.
01:40:27 People couldn't accept their burial within the walls
01:41:08 Can the dividing wall be torn down? - No, it can't.
01:41:34 lt is a unit. l think it's fine.
01:42:12 l see it the same way.
01:42:31 lt really enraged me
01:42:57 looking for local November angels.
01:43:34 GUDRUN, ANDREAS + JAN
01:45:26 Would the family members please step forward?
01:46:59 that these comrades took was the right one.
01:49:15 Murderers!
01:49:51 Here, Ritchy. Come over here!
01:54:55 Drive slowly.
01:57:16 lt simply has to stop.''