Deutschland im Herbst : & Die Patriotin /

Two feature films and four shorts created by the noted German producer and director Alexander Kluge.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:	Deutschland im Herbst (Motion picture)
Corporate Authors:	Münchner Stadtmuseum. Abteilung Film, Goethe-Institut (Munich, Germany), Kulturstiftung des Bundes, Edition Filmmuseum (Firm)
Other Authors:	Kluge, Alexander, 1932-, Böll, Heinrich, 1917-1985, Brustellin, Alf, Sinkel, Bernhard, 1940-, Closs, Hans Peter, Rupé, Katja, 1949-, Fassbinder, Rainer Werner, 1945-1982, Reitz, Edgar, Schlöndorff, Volker, Hoger, Hannelore, Mainka, Dieter, Griem, Helmut, Bennent, Heinz, Edel, Alfred, 1932-1993
Format:	Video DVD
Language:	German
Language Notes:	In German with optional English, French, Spanish, Chinese and Russian subtitles.
Published:	München : Edition Filmmuseum, [2007]
Subjects:	Rote Armee Fraktion. Terrorists > Germany (West) Political violence > Germany (West) > History > 20th century. Teachers > Germany (West) > Drama. Documentary films > Germany. Motion pictures, German. Foreign films. Nonfiction films. Feature films. Fiction films.

Description
Summary:	Two feature films and four shorts created by the noted German producer and director Alexander Kluge. Deutschland im Herbst (Germany in Autumn): A collective film chronicling seven weeks of political terrorism by the Red Army Faction and political repression in Germany during the fall of 1977. It begins with the kidnap and murder of industrialist Hans-Martin Schleyer and ends with the deaths of three imprisoned Baader-Meinhof terrorists. Includes the work of many of Germany's top directors. Die Patriotin (The patriot): Various aspects of German history are explored from several angles in a series of odd sequences. Gabi Teichert (Hannelore Hoger) is both a history teacher and a patriot. One day she goes out into the winter landscape carrying a shovel (digging for the truth?) and comes across a dead soldier killed at the battle of Leningrad, whose symbolically disembodied knee speaks to her. Next, Gabi scans the landscape with a telescope, looking for evidence. Later, she is at a convention of the Social Democrat Party and tries to find information there. The scenes continue at different venues and with different people as this history teacher tries to piece together history.
Item Description:	Title from the container. Originally produced as motion pictures in 1978 (Deutschland im Herbst) and 1979 (Die Patriotin); Nachrichten von den Staufern and Die Menschen, die das Staufer-Jahr vorbereiten produced in 1977. Includes booklet with texts by Alexander Kluge in English and German. "Eine Präsentation des Goethe-Instituts in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Filmmuseum München und mit Unterstützung der Kulturstiftung des Bundes"--Container. Discs do not include all special features listed on container. Videorecording.
Physical Description:	2 videodiscs (approximately 298 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:	DVD (PAL); region code 0; Dolby digital 2.0 (mono).
Production Credits:	Deutschland im Herbst (Germany in Autumn): writers, Film von Böll, Brustellin, Sinkel, Cloos, Rupé, Fassbinder, Kluge, Reitz, Schlöndorff. Editor, Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus; Die Patriotin: camera, Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein, Werner Lüring, Günther Hörmann.