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Germany in Autumn
(Deutschland im Herbst)

Screening on Film
Directed by Alf Brustellin, Hans Peter Cloos, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Alexander Kluge, Maximiliane Mainka, Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus, Edgar Reitz, Katja Rupé, Volker Schlöndorff, Peter Schubert and Bernhard Sinkel.
With Hannelore Hoger, Katja Rupé, Hans Peter Cloos.
West Germany, 1978, 35mm, color, 123 min.
German with English subtitles.

This part-documentary, part-dramatization was directed by eleven different makers and written by thirteen people, including Nobel laureate Heinrich Böll. It portrays the forty-four days in the autumn of 1977 between the kidnapping of industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer and the suicides of Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe. The film evokes the psychological and emotional effects of that tumultuous time and serves as a record of the era.

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