Die Alpensaga is a six-part Austrian television drama film by Peter Turrini and Wilhelm Pevny.

A critical portrayal of the social structures in the countryside and the effects of the political crises in the first half of the 20th century in Upper Austria, it follows the Hubers, an Austrian farming family.

Six episodes, written by Peter Turrini and Wilhelm Pevny, were made: Liebe im Dorf (1976), Der Kaiser am Lande (1977), Das große Fest (1977), Die feindlichen Brüder (1978), Der deutsche Frühling (1979), Ende und Anfang (1980).

Cast: Hans Brenner (Huberbauer), Helmut Qualtinger (Allinger), Ernst Meister (Allinger's partner), Linde Prelog (Anna Huber), Rudolf Jusits (Peter Allinger), Therese Affolter (Agerl Huber), Götz Kauffmann (landlord), Hilde Berger [de] (waitress Christl), Anni Birk (mother Huber), Otto Tausig (gendarme), Jaromír Borek (teacher).

Cast: Franz Buchrieser (Corporal Huber), Bozidarka Frait (Slovakian), Hans Brenner (Huber farmer), Burgi Mattuschka (Huber farmer's wife), Helmut Berger (brother), Linde Prelog (sister), Hilde Berger (landlady Christl), Otto Clemens (farmer) The village during the First World War: Most of the men have been drafted into the army, many of them have already fallen, and all the work is done by the women, children and old people.

Cast: Elisabeth Stepanek (Maria Huber), Manfred Lukas-Luderer (Hubert), Monica Bleibtreu (Frau Leischner), Toni Böhm (Greißler), Rainer Artenfels (teacher), Joe Trummer (letter carrier), Miguel Herz-Kestranek (secretary).

Authors Frank Finlay and Ralf Jeutter state that the series was seen by international critics as "not only a televisual chronicle and obituary of a dying social class, the farming communities which had once been so important, but as an Austrian equivalent of Bertolucci's epic 1900.