Germany in Autumn

Deutschland im Herbst

A smart and provocative mixture of reportage, autobiography and melodrama, this collaborative venture of Germany's foremost film-makers forms a gripping portrait of the political situation in the FDR after the kidnapping of the industrialist Hanns Martin Schleyer in the autumn of 1977, and the subsequent 'suicides' of Baader, Ensslin and Raspe in Stammheim prison.