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The Third Generation

1979·110 min

The Third Generation

Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

ComedyCrimeDrama

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.

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Rudolf Mann

Gerhard Gast

Margit Carstensen

Petra Vielhaber

Eddie Constantine

P. J. Lurz

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Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Screenplay

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Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Producer

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Director of Photography

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The Third Generation (1979) is about 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.

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Rainer Werner Fassbinder directed The Third Generation (1979).

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