Noted examples of sexual scenes in German film can be found in examples that engage with this past and also ones that have very little to do with it, as you shall see.
This mood hangs over so much of their filmmaking, that when exploring noted erotic moments within this history, it is impossible to ignore the heavy weights that exist here. German cinema may unfairly be defined, outside its borders anyway, by how it interprets the various atrocities that were perpetrated during the country’s turbulent twentieth century.