The Third Generation
by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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Actor: Eddie Constantine, Hanna Schygulla, Harry Baer, Margit Carstensen, Volker SpenglerDirector: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Brand: Tango
Producer: Harry Baer
Cinematographer: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Producer: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Writer: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Editor: Juliane Lorenz
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); English (Original Language); French (Original Language); German (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 105 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-07-25
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Tango Entertainment
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Movie Review: Fassbinder's critical view of terrorism.
Summary: 5 Stars
"Terrorism is an idea generated by capitalism to justify better defense measures to safeguard capitalism."--Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
After releasing Ali - Fear Eats the Soul (Angst essen Seele auf) in 1974, critic Vincent Canby of the New York Times recognized Fassbinder as "the most original talent since Godard." In 1979, Fassbinder then went on to make The Third Generation (Die Dritte Generation) in between two of my favorite Fassbinder works, In a Year with 13 Moons (1978) and Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980). The Third Generation is a satirical film about modern culture and terrorism, revealing Fassbinder not only at his artistic best but at his most controversial. The point of his film seems to be that the capitalism invented a "Third Generation" of terrorism to force the West German State to protect it better, a provocative premise that remains relevant in the post-9/11 world. (Upon its theatrical release at a German film festival, outraged audience members reportedly stormed the projection booth and stopped the film.) The first third of the movie depicts a radical, left-wing West German group of subversives, who take a banker (Eddie Constantine) hostage in Berlin to draw attention to their cause. The comedy is then transformed into a dark drama when the group kills the banker in a bungled robbery. Fassbinder seems critical of his anti-capitalist group of subversives (played by Volker Spengler, Raúl Gimenez, Harry Baer, Bulle Ogier, and Hanna Schygulla), who act without any real idealogy, therfore leaving themselves open to manipulation. In his review of this film, Canby writes: "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." Recommended.
G. Merritt
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