Deutschland im Herbst

Germany in Autumn is one of the landmark films of the New German Cinema. A collaborative effort among Germany's leading writers and directors, the film offered a pointed response to the climate of political terrorism prevalent in Germany during the late 1970s.

Germany in Autumn skillfully weaves together the terrorist present and the Nazi past and transposes political history into family melodrama. The assemblage of documentary material, archival footage and staged fiction give the film a richness of texture and deep sense of history.