Deutschland im Herbst

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.