Germany in Autumn
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 59 minutes
- Video: Black & White / Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: December 28, 2010
- Originally Released: 1977
- Label: Facets
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Directed by | Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Volker Schlöndorff, Edgar Reitz, Alexander Kluge & Maximiliane Mainka | |
Screenwriting by | Heinrich Boll |
Entertainment Reviews:
Germany in Autumn, though its contributions are uneven, is a fascinating political symposium, in which the cost of preserving order is anxiously measured against the cost of the order that is being preserved.
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The Spectator
...[Fassbinder's] segment is the most interesting part of the film...
New York Times
Rating: A- --
Though events happened over thirty years ago, the film is still relevant, exciting, urgent and mind-blowing.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
At its best, the film argues that it's impossible to have a 'coherent' left wing position on terrorism.
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Time Out
Rating: 4/5 --
It's sometimes startlingly beautiful, often obscure and confusing, sometimes funny and mostly disturbing, as it should be.
New York Times
It is, of course, wildly uneven (and sometimes insufferable), but there is an urgency and engagement in each of the episodes.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 2/4 --
A compelling and historically significant addition to German cinema, but those unfamiliar with that country's political situation may find it difficult to relate to.
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TV Guide
Product Description:
Fed up with the volatile climate of political terrorism in their country in the late 1970s, an impressive group of West German filmmakers and writers responded with this omnibus collaboration about Baader-Meinhof, the left-wing terrorist group that bred the Red Army Faction, who kidnapped and murdered German official Hanns Martin Schleyer in 1977. Part personal essay, part political indictment, the film opens with Schleyer's monumental funeral and closes with the funeral of three terrorists who appeared to be scapegoats for Schleyer's death. The film also interweaves documentary footage from Germany's past and present as well as fictional interludes and diatribes from the filmmakers themselves in order to better grapple with the social and political issues surrounding terrorism in post-World War II Germany. The script was cowritten by Heinrich Boll and Peter Steinbach, who worked with each individual director to better develop their own individual feelings concerning Germany's political future. The directors--Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Volker Schlöndorff, Alexander Kluge, Maximiliane Mainka, Bernhard Sinkel, Edgar Reitz, Katja Rupe, Hans Peter Cloos, and Alf Brustellin--bring their own distinct personalities and visions to GERMANY IN AUTUMN, resulting in a broad, important, and highly charged drama that is widely hailed as a hallmark of the New German Cinema of the 1970s.