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 …