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The Third Generation

1979
1h 51m
Crime/Drama
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Cast

Eddie Constantine (P. J. Lurz)Hanna Schygulla (Susanne Gast)Volker Spengler (August)Margit Carstensen (Petra)Harry Baer (Rudolf)Hark Bohm (Gerhard Gast)Jürgen Draeger (Hans)Raúl Gimenez (Paul)Claus Holm (Opa Gast)Günther Kaufmann (Franz Walsch)Udo Kier (Edgar Gast)Bulle Ogier (Hilde Krieger)Lilo Pempeit (Mutter Gast)Y Sa Lo (Ilse Hoffmann)Vitus Zeplichal (Bernhard von Stein)Juliane Lorenz (Job Placement Counselor)Peer Raben

Director

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

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Synopsis

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.

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