Year: 1978
Runtime: 123 mins
Language: German
Director: Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus
Germany in Autumn blends documentary footage with staged scenes to capture West Germany’s late‑1970s atmosphere. It follows the two‑month span of 1977 when a businessman was abducted and killed by the left‑wing RAF (Red Army Faction) in an attempt to free its Baader‑Meinhof leaders, who died by suicide in prison, claimed to be state‑engineered.
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