Deutschland im Herbst

Germany in Autumn

L' Allemagne en automne

  • Peter Schubert
  • Alexander Kluge
  • Volker Schlöndorff
  • Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Alf Brustellin
  • Bernhard Sinkel
  • Katja Rupe
  • Hans Peter Cloos
  • Edgar Reitz
  • Maximiliane Mainka
  • 1978
  • Germany
  • 123 minutes
  • German
  • © DR
    © DR
  • © DR
    © DR
  • © DR
    © DR

Germany, Autumn 1977, after the abduction and murder of Hans-Martin Schleyer, the head of the German industrialists’ association, and the prison suicides of three of the Baader-Meinhof group. A montage of documentary and fiction sequences, as the famous episode where Fassbinder forces his mother and lover to take a stand on terrorism and State repression, or the episode where the Television postpones a programme on Antigone. Kluge’s project is designed to mirror the contradictions of a society struck by tension, suspicion and disturbing forms of passivity.

  • Production : Project Filmproduktion; Kairos-Film; Hallelujah-Film
  • Editing : Heidi Genée; Mulle Goetz-Dockopp; Tanja Schmidbauer; Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus; Christine Warnck; Juliane Lorenz
  • Sound : Klaus Eckelt
  • Photography : Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein; Michael Ballhaus; Günter Hörmann; Werner Lüring; Jürgen Jürges; Bodo Kessler; Dietrich Lohmann; Colin Mounier

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