Final Cut: Die Dritte Generation (The Third Generation)
by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

SEP
12
Film screening
10 pm
Filmladen Kassel e. V., Goethestraße 31, Kassel

Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Die Dritte Generation (The Third Generation), 1979, West Germany, film still

Die Dritte Generation (The Third Generation), Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1979, West Germany, 105 min., in German (no subtitles)

Winter 1978/79 in West Berlin. A group of inept middle-class German radicals—united less by their political convictions than their secretive behavior—goes underground after the killer Paul, flown in from Africa, is shot by the police. The young terrorists kidnap Peter Lurz (Eddie Constantine), the representative of a US computer firm …


Final Cut is a documenta 14 film program that takes place at Filmladen Kassel, a small arthouse cinema, during the final week of the exhibition. Daily from September 11–17, beginning at 8:30 pm, it presents a selection of riveting yet seldom-seen films compiled by Artistic Director Adam Szymczyk.

Entrance fee: 7.50 € / reduced 7 €. Tickets for the screenings can be purchased from September 7 or on the day of the screenings, daily from 5 pm at Filmladen Kassel. Reservations are not possible.

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