The Third Generation (1979) on Netflix
P.J. Lurz cannot sell his security computers to the West German government. His secretary Susanne Gast answers a coded call summoning the leftist cell she belongs to, which plans a kidnapping.
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Plot summary
P.J. Lurz runs an industrial firm from a Berlin high-rise and tells his American headquarters that the government in Bonn shows little interest in his security computers. He keeps a secret plan to change that. His secretary, Susanne Gast, takes a phone call whose message is a code phrase from Schopenhauer, alerting a hidden circle of leftists and would-be terrorists she belongs to. August Brem leads the group. The others are Edgar Gast, Susanne's composer husband, the history professor Hilde Krieger, Petra Vielhaber, whose husband Hans is a banker, and Rudolf Mann, a record store clerk.
Cast
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- Rudi Dutschkeas Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Juliane Lorenzas Job Placement Counselor (uncredited)
- Karsten Voigtas Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Third Generation (1979)
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- The film's political theme aroused controversy: at a screening in Hamburg the projectionist was beaten unconscious, and in Frankfurt an angry mob threw acid at the screen. There were also death threats.
- Bulle Ogier, one of the film's two international stars, did not speak German, so her dialogue was translated into her native French by Juliane Lorenz, the assistant director and editor, who also had a cameo as a job counselor.
