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Die Dritte Generation
aka The Third Generation
Screening: Monday 9 October, 6:30pm
West Germany
1979
Director/Producer/Screenplay: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Production co: Tango Film, Pro-ject Filmproduktion, Filmverlag der Autoren
Cinematography: Rainer Werner Fasssbinder, Hans Gnther Bcking
Editor: Juliane Lorenz
Sound: Hartmut Eichgrn, Jean-Luc Mari
Music: Peer Raben
August Brem: Volker Spengler
Hilde Krieger: Bulle Ogier
Susanne Gast: Hanna Schygulla
Rudolf Mann: Harry Baer
Bernhard von Stein: Vitus Zeplichal
Edgar Gast: Udo Kier
Petra Vielhaber: Margit Carstensen
Franz Walsch: Gnther Kaufman
Peter Lurz: Eddie Constantine
Paul: Raul Gimenez
Ilse Hoffmann: Y Sa Lo
Gerhard Gast: Hark Bohm
Grandpa Gast: Claus Holm
In German with English subtitles
111 mins
16mm
R16 cert
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The film that prompted Vincent Canby to call Fassbinder “the most dazzling, talented, provocative, original, puzzling, prolific, and exhilarating filmmaker of his generation.” In West Berlin in 1978, computer magnate P. J. Lurz seeks to increase sales by covertly promoting terrorism. He recruits a new-styled gang of terrorists: middle-class people for whom terrorism is a lifestyle. For Fassbinder, “terrorism is an invention of capitalism to better protect its capital,” and contemporary German terrorists are distinguished from their predecessors (including the Baader-Meinhof cell) by their lack of coherent political beliefs. Eddie Constantine (quintessential gangster) plays the businessman who manipulates the conspirators in this “comedy in six parts/ about party games...horror and madness/ just like the fairy stories/ they tell children....” (Fassbinder) – Pacific Film Archive
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