Deutschland im Herbst
Subtitle: Germany in autumn
By: Filmverlag der Autoren ; es wirken mit Wolfgang Baechler ... [et al.] film von Böll ... [et al.] ; eine Gemeinschaftsproduktion der ABS-Filmproduktion ... [et al. ; written and directed by Alexander Kluge ... et al. ; produced by Theo Hines and Eberhard Junkersdorf for Kairos Film ... et al.].
Contributors: Fassbinder, Rainer Werner, 1945-1982; Winkler, Angela, 1944-; Griem, Helmut; Hinz, Theo; Hoger, Hannelore; Ballhaus, Michael, 1935-2017; Facets Video (Firm); Filmverlag der Autoren; ABS-Filmproduktion; Kairos-Film (Firm)
Series: The Alexander Kluge collection; Alexander Kluge collection
Publisher: Facets Video
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago, IL
Language: ger
Format: [videorecording] =
Number of pages: 119
ISBN-13: 9781565809130
Subjects: Drama; Political violence; Murder; Terrorism; History
Other titles: Germany in autumn; News of the Staufers.; Nachrichten von den Staufern.
Description: "Eleven leading filmmakers collaborated on this protest against Fascist tendencies in West Germany by reflecting on the tragic events of autumn 1977, when public official Hanns Martin Schleyer was kidnapped and murdered by the Baader-Meinhof group, whose members mysteriously died in prison. The contents of this quasi-documentary, omnibus film range from an elegiac sequence of the burial of the prisoners to newsreel clips of Rommel's cortege and a fictitious argument among TV executives about a controversial production of Antigone. In the amazing Fassbinder sequence, he interviews his mother, who had endorsed the dictatorship, then physically abuses his boyfriend. Political history and film history intersect in this dynamic film that deftly combines art and politics."--Distributor website.

"Produced in response to the kidnapping and murder of a prominent industrialist by a German terrorist group 30 years ago ... consists of a series of nonfiction and fiction segments bookended by two funerals--the industrialist's at the beginning and the terrorists' at the end. More of an essay than a straightforward documentary, the film captures impressions of this explosive and emotive moment in Germany's history by several directors of the New German Cinema"--Container.
Notes: Originally released as a German motion picture in 1978.

Special feature: Nachrichten von den Staufern = News of the Staufers (22 min.).

Some credits from container.

"Eine Gemeinschaftsproduktion der ABS-Filmproduktion, tango-film GmbH, Kairos-Film, Halleluja-Filmproduktion, Edgar Reitz Filmproduktion u.a. mit Projekt-Filmproduktion im Filmverlag der Autoren."--Closing credits.

"Widescreen and fullscreen"--Container.

"Film von Böll, Brustellin, Sinkel, Cloos, Rupé, Fassbinder, Kluge, Mainka, Reitz, Schlöndorff, Schubert."--Opening credits.

Sound, Roland Hentschke, Martin Müller, Günter Stadelmann ; editing, Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus ... [et al.] ; camera, Michael Ballhaus ... [et al.] ; subtitles, Peter Rigney.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Angela Winkler, Helmut Griem, Hannelore Hoger.

DVD; NTSC, region 1.

German with English subtitles.

28th International Berlin Film Festival Special Jury Prize; Bundesfilmpreis in 1978.