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The Third Generation

The Third Generation

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1979
1h 50m
6.0(52 votes)
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Crime
Drama

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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.

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