/The Third Generation (1979).jpg)
/The Third Generation (1979)2.jpg)
Third Generation (The)
Original Title
Die dritte Generation- Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Writer: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Producer: Harry Baer; Rainer Werner Fassbinder
CGiii Comment
A very difficult film indeed.
With Fassbinder, it's always hit or miss - depending on your own artistic bent and degree of anger.
Fassbinder was an angry (and miserable) man. This is a comedy - and, it is funny for those that find nothing funny in the world.
The actors don't act...they hit their marks and deliver lines - a Fassbinder trademark.
The sound is cacophonous throughout, the editing is abrupt and clumsy...the film is a saddling bore because Fassbinder has done/wrote it all, many times, before.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
A mogul merrily funds terrorists to boost his computer sales, by panicking West German government and industry c. 1980, as the third generation of Western European left-wing activists forms, after crippling of the violent Red Army Faction. Released in 1979, largely unavailable until 2004. International kapitalist PJ Lurz's secretary is a gang member, while her Polizeikommissar father-in-law/lover hired Lurz' corporate security force.
Cast & Characters
Harry Baer as Rudolf Mann;
Hark Bohm as Gerhard Gast;
Margit Carstensen as Petra Vielhaber;
Eddie Constantine as P. J. Lurz;
Jurgen Draeger as Hans Vielhaber;
Raul Gimenez as Paul;
Claus Holm as Opa Gast;
Gunther Kaufmann as Franz Walsch;
Udo Kier as Edgar Gast;
Bulle Ogier as Hilde Krieger;
Lilo Pempeit as Mutter Gast;
Hanna Schygulla as Susanne Gast;
Volker Spengler as August;
Y Sa Lo as Ilse Hoffmann;
Vitus Zeplichal as Bernhard von Stein