In Those Days Roses Bloom on the Grave in the Meadow

Helmut Kautner's In Those Days is a powerful reflection on the poverty-stricken years 1933-47. Hans H. Konig's Roses Bloom on the Grave in the Meadow offers a dark view of rural Germany. Made soon after the war under impoverished conditions, Helmut Kautner's In Those Days is a powerful reflection on the years 1933-47 that focuses on the story of a car and its seven owners (who include a "decadent" composer and a desperate Jewish couple). (1947; 111 mins.)

Hans H. Konig's Roses Bloom on the Grave in the Meadow dispels the myth of German rural innocence as it tells of the catastrophes that ensue when a farmer rapes a young girl. (1952; 90 mins.)