Germany in Autumn

Overview

This film eschews a traditional narrative, instead blending documentary elements with cinematic scenes to evoke the atmosphere of late 1970s Germany. It focuses on the tumultuous two-month period in 1977 marked by the kidnapping and eventual murder of a businessman by the leftist group known as the RAF (Red Army Faction). Their aim was to exchange him for the release of their imprisoned leaders, the notorious Baader-Meinhof gang. Following the failure of both the kidnapping and a plane hijacking, the group's key figures—Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, and Jan-Carl Raspe—reportedly took their own lives in prison, fueling speculation within leftist circles that they were actually murdered by the state.