The Third Generation

1979 [GERMAN]

Action / Crime / Drama

11
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 73% · 12 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 73% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.7/10 10 3032 3K

Plot summary

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

Rainer Werner Fassbinder Photo
Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Top cast

Udo Kier Photo
Udo Kier as Edgar Gast
Claus Holm Photo
Claus Holm as Opa Gast
Hanna Schygulla Photo
Hanna Schygulla as Susanne Gast
Daniel Cohn-Bendit Photo
Daniel Cohn-Bendit as Himself
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
1002.68 MB
988*720
German 2.0
NR
Subtitles de  
24 fps
1 hr 49 min
Seeds 2
1.82 GB
1472*1072
German 2.0
NR
Subtitles de  
24 fps
1 hr 49 min
Seeds 13

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by bendross 7 / 10

strange but fascinating

i can't say i really understood this movie but i was gripped. i'd drunk 8 beers before watching and fancied something heavy and wot heavier than Fassbinder i thought. i've read all the reviews of this movie on IMDb and they tell me it's a comedy. i didn't laugh once but Fassbinder really is way above my head in every way, so u may see the comedy that i missed out on. i also read u need to see this movie 2 or 3 times to get it. i think this movie was just too complex for my little brain but i still loved it. Fassbinder's 'fox and his friends' is one of my favourite ever films so i will always be open to a Fassbinder film. i will watch this film again because i really think there is something special going on. i shouldn't have drunk 8 beers before watching this complex work but like i said, i still enjoyed it which i think says something about Fassbinder.
Reviewed by samxxxul 8 / 10

Fascinating from the first to the last

One of Fassbinder's most underrated and misunderstood films with the spirited cast-including Udo Kier, Eddie Constantine, Hanna Schygulla, Margin Carstensen-make all this touching as well as troubling. This was made during a time when West Germany was dealing with many homegrown terrorist groups. Mind it, this is not an action film but an absurd comedy to be precise which explores the German Terrorism (Baader-Meinhoff crew) of the 70s. Fassbinder takes a neutral stand here and skewers both the left and the right, he takes a dig at the corruption and hypocrisy of both the capitalists and the communists. He pokes fun at radical bourgeois nihilist leftists who wants to make a statement against capitalism, but the result is that their efforts turn out to be a big flop as it helped the wealthy capitalist. Still kinda oddly compelling almost like adding another weird one to the opus of the old anti-burgeous Godard (La Chinoise) film which is relevant as shown in the on-screen title card and the aural tricks. Beyond Godard, Robert Bresson is a major influence in the film, scenes from controversial The Devil Probably is shown playing on the TV at the beginning of this film), and Tarkovsky's Solaris. But it is so stylized and deliberately non realist that it could be something else. But what matters is its visual aspect, made of unusual frames and geometric images that makes of it one of Faasbinder's best film I know followed by Lili Marleen, fascinating from the first to the last.
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