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