The Third Generation

Original title: Die dritte Generation

Duration: 110 min

Release date: 1979-05-30

IMDB

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.

Comedy Crime Drama

Die dritte Generation

Watch Providers

Criterion Channel

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as Gerhard Gast

Margit Carstensen

Margit Carstensen

as Petra Vielhaber

Eddie Constantine

Eddie Constantine

Jürgen Draeger

as Hans Vielhaber

Volker Spengler

Volker Spengler

Hanna Schygulla

Hanna Schygulla

as Susanne Gast

as Hilde Krieger

Günther Kaufmann

Günther Kaufmann

as Franz Walsch

as Ilse Hoffmann

Vitus Zeplichal

Vitus Zeplichal

as Bernhard von Stein

Daniel Cohn-Bendit

Daniel Cohn-Bendit

as Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

as Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

as Job Placement Counselor (uncredited)

as (uncredited)

as Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

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Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Original Music Composer

Executive Producer

Volker Spengler

Volker Spengler

Production Design

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Director of Photography

Production Manager

Assistant Director

Assistant Director

Hartmut Eichgrün

Hartmut Eichgrün

Sound Effects Editor

Fred Bräutigam

Hans-Günther Bücking

Hans-Günther Bücking

Assistant Camera

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Camera Operator

Assistant Camera

Assistant Editor

Production Assistant

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