
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

Harry Baer
Rudolf Mann

Hark Bohm
Gerhard Gast

Margit Carstensen
Petra Vielhaber

Eddie Constantine
P. J. Lurz
Jürgen Draeger
Hans Vielhaber

Udo Kier
Edgar Gast

Volker Spengler
August

Hanna Schygulla
Susanne Gast

Bulle Ogier
Hilde Krieger

Günther Kaufmann
Franz Walsch

Claus Holm
Opa Gast
Raúl Gimenez
Paul

Lilo Pempeit
Mutter Gast
Y Sa Lo
Ilse Hoffmann

Vitus Zeplichal
Bernhard von Stein

Daniel Cohn-Bendit
Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Rudi Dutschke
Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Juliane Lorenz
Job Placement Counselor (uncredited)

Peer Raben
(uncredited)
Karsten Voigt
Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Crew

Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Director, Screenplay, Director of Photography, Producer, Camera Operator
Juliane Lorenz
Editor, Assistant Director
Karin Viesel
Assistant Editor, Production Assistant
Diana Elephant
Assistant Director

Harry Baer
Executive Producer, Production Manager
Raúl Gimenez
Production Design
Hans-Günther Bücking
Assistant Camera

Alexander Witt
Assistant Camera
Fred Bräutigam
Pyrotechnician
Joachim Schulz
Pyrotechnician
Lothar Tropp
Pyrotechnician
Anni Nöbauer
Makeup Artist
Mel Kutbay
Sound Effects Editor
Milan Bor
Sound
Hartmut Eichgrün
Sound
Jean-Luc Marie
Sound

Peer Raben
Original Music Composer

Volker Spengler
Art Direction
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