The Third Generation
May 30 1979
•2h 50m
•Comedy, Crime, Drama
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.
Cast
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Harry Baer
Rudolf Mann
Hark Bohm
Gerhard Gast
Margit Carstensen
Petra Vielhaber
Eddie Constantine
P. J. Lurz
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