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The Third Generation
GERMANY · 1979

The Third Generation

Rainer Werner Fassbinder
political manipulation leftist radicalism state surveillance terrorism and counterterrorism government authoritarianism
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Synopsis

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.

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