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Rainer Werner Fassbinder made a series of films about troubled people, mostly gay men, and this one goes a little further, involving a gang who rob a bank for political reasons, modelled on the Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF), the Baader-Meinhof Gang. It starts by announcing that it is in six sections, and each section starts with a quotation from lewd inscriptions in men's lavatories in Berlin.
Fassbinder wanted his films to be "art" and this makes life difficult for the viewer -- in most scenes a television is blaring irrelevantly in the background, for example.
The gang are activated by the passing of a secret phrase, and things slowly build up to the climax. About 30 minutes into the film, this member of the gang calls on one of them in drag, causing an argument.
The film has been released in an English-language version, The Third Generation.
HF November 2010
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