The Third Generation (1979)

6.0/10 110 min Comedy Crime Drama

Overview

A wildly anarchic satire of guerrilla terrorism in which a band of leftist radicals inadvertently become puppets of the West German government, which uses them to justify its authoritarian policies.

Cast

Harry Baer

Rudolf Mann

Hark Bohm

Gerhard Gast

Margit Carstensen

Petra Vielhaber

Eddie Constantine

P. J. Lurz

Udo Kier

Edgar Gast

Volker Spengler

August

Hanna Schygulla

Susanne Gast

Bulle Ogier

Hilde Krieger

Günther Kaufmann

Franz Walsch

Claus Holm

Opa Gast

Lilo Pempeit

Mutter Gast

Y Sa Lo

Ilse Hoffmann

Vitus Zeplichal

Bernhard von Stein

Daniel Cohn-Bendit

Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Peer Raben

(uncredited)

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