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Germany in Autumn
Monday Nov 24, 2008 (7pm)
Doc Films
1212 E 59th St
773.702.8575
$5
An unsung classic of New German Cinema, Germany in Autumn explores the terrorist acts that rocked the country in the fall of 1977. The fever-dream "documentary" — quickly produced by a collective of over a dozen German directors and writers — melds disparate segments including newscasts, archival historical footage, biting satire, and a show-stopping dramatic vignette by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Bookended by two funerals — one of Hanns-Martin Schleyer, the murdered victim of militant left-wing terrorist group, RAF; the other, of three RAF members who died under mysterious circumstances while imprisoned — the film probes the national crisis in a disorienting, morally ambiguous manner. The result is transfixing.
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