Filme von Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Die dritte Generation (The Third Generation)

A six-part comedy about party games, filled with suspense, excitement, and logic, cruelty and madness; comparable to the tales told to children to help them bear their lives on their way to death. Winter 1978 / 79 in Westberlin. A group of young people – joined together less by their political convictions than their secretive behavior (their code word is: “the world as intention and idea”) – goes underground after the killer Paul (Raoul Gimenez), flown in from Africa, is shot by the police. On February 27, Mardi Gras, the young terrorists kidnap Peter Lurtz (Eddie Constantine) the representative of a US computer firm …

Weltvertrieb
Kinowelt

Verleih (D)
Kinowelt

Produktionsjahr
1978/79
Regie
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Buch
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Kamera
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Musik
Peer Raben
Schnitt
Juliane Lorenz
Ausstattung
Raoul Gimenez, Volker Spengler
Besetzung
Volker Spengler (August Brem) Bulle Ogier (Hilde Krieger) Hanna Schygulla (Susanne Gast) Harry Baer (Rudolf Mann) Vitus Zeplichal (Bernhard von Stein) Udo Kier (Edgar Gast) Margit Carstensen (Petra Vielhaber) Günther Kaufmann (Franz Walsch) Eddie Constantine (P. J. Lurtz) Raoul Gimenez (Paul) Y Sa Lo (Ilse Hoffmann) Hark Bohm (Gerhard Gast) Claus Holm (Opa Gast) Lilo Pempeit [d.i. Liselotte Eder] (Mutter Gast) Jürgen Draeger (Hans Vielhaber) Juliane Lorenz (Angestellte im Arbeitsamt)
Produktion
Tango-Film, Berlin / Pro-ject Filmproduktion in the Filmverlag der Autoren
Format
35 mm, color, 110 min.