The Third Generation

The Third Generation

1979 · 1 hr 51 min · N/A

Crime, Drama

Directors

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Actors

  • Eddie Constantine
  • Hanna Schygulla
  • Volker Spengler

Summary

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

More about this movie

Peter Lenz, a mogul merrily funds terrorists to boost his computer sales, by panicking West German government and industry c. 1980, as the third generation of Western European left-wing activists forms, after crippling of the violent Red Army Faction. International capitalist PJ Lurz's secretary is a gang member, while her Polizeikommissar father-in-law/lover hired Lurz' corporate security force. On February 27, Carnival Tuesday, these young terrorists kidnap Peter Lenz.

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