TV series

Die Alpensaga

1976–1980 · 1 season

A slow, serious look at hard rural lives across decades, more like reading a history book than watching a melodrama.

Overview: A six-part film series addressing the problems of rural Austria from 1900 to 1945. Contrary to the traditional "Heimatfilm", the Alpensaga detaches itself from typical clichés and tries to depict a critical view of societal structures of the time. World history is shown from the view of a peasant family living in a small village in Upper Austria.
How it feels: Melancholic, earnest, bleak and tense. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Class, family, power, survival
Content: Mild violence, gore, sexual content and language.
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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
bleakstrength 1 of 3
tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: class
family
power
survival
politics
Places: countryside
small town
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: serialised
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild