Fresh
[A] hectic, funny, prismatically intricate political thriller ...
Richard Brody, New Yorker
The Third Generation
1979 · 1h 50m · N/A
Comedy, Crime, Drama
Directed by
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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.
Director and cast
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder Director
- Harry Baer as Rudolf Mann
- Hark Bohm as Gerhard Gast
- Margit Carstensen as Petra Vielhaber
- Eddie Constantine as P. J. Lurz
- Jürgen Draeger as Hans Vielhaber
- Udo Kier as Edgar Gast
- Volker Spengler as August
- Hanna Schygulla as Susanne Gast
- Bulle Ogier as Hilde Krieger
- Günther Kaufmann as Franz Walsch
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
88%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Episodic, aurally and visually cluttered, and calculated to irritate, but like most Fassbinder films, worth a second look.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Fresh
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.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
Fresh
Essential viewing.
Time Out
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