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.
Writing | Volker Schlöndorff | Screenplay |
Camera | Dietrich Lohmann | Director of Photography |
Directing | Volker Schlöndorff | Director |
Writing | Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus | Screenplay |
Directing | Alf Brustellin | Director |
Directing | Bernhard Sinkel | Director |
Writing | Heinrich Böll | Screenplay |
Writing | Alexander Kluge | Screenplay |
Editing | Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus | Editor |
Writing | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Screenplay |
Writing | Peter Schubert | Screenplay |
Editing | Heidi Genée | Editor |
Writing | Alf Brustellin | Screenplay |
Writing | Bernhard Sinkel | Screenplay |
Production | Eberhard Junkersdorf | Producer |
Directing | Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus | Director |
Directing | Edgar Reitz | Director |
Camera | Michael Ballhaus | Director of Photography |
Camera | Jürgen Jürges | Director of Photography |
Directing | Hans Peter Cloos | Director |
Directing | Maximiliane Mainka | Director |
Directing | Peter Schubert | Director |
Editing | Juliane Lorenz | Editor |
Editing | Tanja Schmidbauer | Editor |
Directing | Alexander Kluge | Director |
Writing | Maximiliane Mainka | Screenplay |
Production | Theo Hinz | Producer |
Directing | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Director |
Writing | Hans Peter Cloos | Screenplay |
Writing | Peter Steinbach | Screenplay |
Camera | Colin Mounier | Director of Photography |
Editing | Mulle Goetz-Dickopp | Editor |
Directing | Katja Rupé | Director |
Writing | Edgar Reitz | Screenplay |
Camera | Bodo Kessler | Director of Photography |
Camera | Werner Lüring | Director of Photography |
Writing | Katja Rupé | Screenplay |
Camera | Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein | Director of Photography |
Editing | Christine Warnck | Editor |
Sound | Ennio Morricone | Music |
Camera | Günther Hörmann | Director of Photography |