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

Original Music Composer

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Executive Producer

Production Design

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Volker Spengler

Volker Spengler

Sound Effects Editor

Assistant Camera

Fred Bräutigam

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Camera Operator

Hartmut Eichgrün

Hartmut Eichgrün

Assistant Editor

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Director of Photography

Assistant Director

Hans-Günther Bücking

Hans-Günther Bücking

Assistant Camera

Assistant Director

Production Manager

Production Assistant

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