The Third Generation

The Third Generation
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DVD Details

  • Rated: Unrated
  • Run Time: 2 hours, 10 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: July 25, 2006
  • Originally Released: 1979
  • Label: Tango Entertainment

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 403
[A] hectic, funny, prismatically intricate political thriller ... Full Review
New Yorker
Nov 17, 2014
... the film is not dispossessed of Fassbinder's absorbing narrative capacity, here more given to caricature and the unreal tone than usual. [Full review in Spanish] Full Review
El Pais (Spain)
Mar 13, 2018
A parallel vaudeville of anger and disillusionment, a Dziga Vertov Group revue done over by Macke Full Review
CinePassion
Sep 25, 2009
As always, the beauty of a Fassbinder film is in the telling -- the camera work is stunning, the color and the music superbly complement the story line and the director's chilling sense of irony is apparent. Full Review
People Magazine
Aug 3, 2015
Rating: 5/5 -- There no longer can be any doubt about it: Rainer Werner Fassbinder is the most dazzling, talented, provocative, original, puzzling, prolific and exhilarating film maker of his generation. Anywhere.
New York Times
Jun 3, 2006
Rating: B -- A must see for its underlying reasoning. Full Review
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Jun 2, 2006
Essential viewing. Full Review
Time Out
Jun 3, 2006

Product Description:

Alternately acclaimed and controversial German auteur Rainer Werner Fassbinder's disturbing, twisted, and often very funny satire about modern culture and terrorism was made in 1979, but remains an intriguing and, of course, still-timely look at the subject. The provocative film follows an inept group of radicals who take a well-known businessman hostage to draw attention to their cause, but soon find themselves consumed with infighting and somewhat-justified paranoia, unwitting pawns of the very state they oppose. The capable cast includes Harry Baer, Hark Bohm, Margit Carstensen, and Udo Kier.

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  • UPC: 844628010436
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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