The Third Generation

Plot

A wildly anarchic satire of guerrilla terrorism in which a band of leftist radicals inadvertently become puppets of the West German government, which uses them to justify its authoritarian policies.

  • Rainer Werner Fassbinder

    Director

  • Rainer Werner Fassbinder

    Screenplay

  • Rainer Werner Fassbinder

    Director of Photography

  • Juliane Lorenz

    Editor

  • Harry Baer

    Rudolf Mann

  • Hark Bohm

    Gerhard Gast

  • Margit Carstensen

    Petra Vielhaber

  • Eddie Constantine

    P. J. Lurz

  • Jürgen Draeger

    Hans Vielhaber

  • Udo Kier

    Edgar Gast

  • Volker Spengler

    August

  • Hanna Schygulla

    Susanne Gast

  • Bulle Ogier

    Hilde Krieger

  • Günther Kaufmann

    Franz Walsch

  • Claus Holm

    Opa Gast

  • Raúl Gimenez

    Paul

  • Lilo Pempeit

    Mutter Gast

  • Y Sa Lo

    Ilse Hoffmann

  • Vitus Zeplichal

    Bernhard von Stein

  • Daniel Cohn-Bendit

    Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

  • Rudi Dutschke

    Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

  • Juliane Lorenz

    Job Placement Counselor (uncredited)

  • Peer Raben

    (uncredited)

  • Karsten Voigt

    Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

  • Runtime

    110 minutes

    Released

    1979-05-30

    Languages

    English

    Français

    Deutsch

    Countries

    Germany

    Studios

    Tango Film

    Filmverlag der Autoren

    Pro-ject Filmproduktion

    Sound

  • Peer Raben

    Original Music Composer

  • Updated

    140 days ago

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