Die Dritte Generation (The Third Generation) (1979)
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83% of critics liked it
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67% of users liked it
(370 ratings)
German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder both directed and photographed The Third Generation (Die Dritte Generation). Displaying a sense of humor that can most kindly be described as perverse, Fassbinder follows the exploits of a group of well-heeled German terrorists. Without truly taking sides,… More German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder both directed and photographed The Third Generation (Die Dritte Generation). Displaying a sense of humor that can most kindly be described as perverse, Fassbinder follows the exploits of a group of well-heeled German terrorists. Without truly taking sides, the director demonstrates how the terrorists are essentially shooting themselves in the foot. The more havoc they spread, the tighter the government restrictions against other radicals. Eddie Constantine, the sang-froid leading man of many a Lemmy Caution espionage film, is ironically cast in The Third Generation. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Genres
- Art House & International, Mystery & Suspense, Comedy
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- May 13, 1979 Wide
Critic Reviews
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Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Episodic, aurally and visually cluttered, and calculated to irritate, but like most Fassbinder films, worth a second look.
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, Time Out
Essential viewing.
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Vincent Canby, New York Times
There no longer can be any doubt about it: Rainer Werner Fassbinder is the most dazzling, talented, provocative, original, puzzling, prolific and exhilarating film maker of his generation. Anywhere.
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Fernando F. Croce, CinePassion
A parallel vaudeville of anger and disillusionment, a Dziga Vertov Group revue done over by Macke
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, Film4
A minor curiosity.
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Cast
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Margit Carstensen
as Letra
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Eddie Constantine
as Lenz
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Hanna Schygulla
as Susanne
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Volker Spengler
as August
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Udo Kier
as Edgar
- Harry Baer
- Hark Bohm
- Claus Holm
- Günther Kaufmann
- Lilo Pempeit
- Bulle Ogier
- Juergen Draeger
