It was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or in the main competition section at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival,[3][4] where Kruger won the Best Actress award.

The police rule out a Jihadist motive as Nuri was neither religious nor political and initially focus on revenge by drug traffickers, though they release a composite sketch of the blonde woman.

Devastated, Katja uses drugs and later attempts suicide by slashing her wrists, but changes her mind after hearing a voicemail from her lawyer Danilo Fava stating that two Neo-Nazi suspects, married couple André and Edda Möller, have been caught.

Unable to dispel reasonable doubt due to the shared storage, the potential alibi and Katja's questionable testimony, the court acquits the couple.

[10][11] Following Inglourious Basterds (2009), the film was only the second major German-language role for lead actress Diane Kruger, who had moved to the United States as a teenager.

The website's critical consensus reads, "In the Fade proves Diane Kruger is more than up to the task of carrying a movie — even if the end result doesn't quite live up to her remarkable work.