Heimat [videorecording (DVD)] : a chronicle / by Edgar Reitz ; in coproduktion mit dem SFB und dem WDR ; producer, Inge Richter ; writers, Edgar Reitz and Peter Steinbach ; director, Edgar Reitz.
Marita Breuer, Gertrud Bredel, Willi Burger, Rudiger Weigang, Johannes Lobewein, Kurt Wagner. Originally produced as a television mini-series in 1984.
Contents:
Disc 1. Introduction to Heimat by Marc Silberman. Episode 1. Fernweh = The call of far away places, 1919-1928 -- Disc 2. Episode 2. Die mitte Welt = The center of the world, 1928-1933. Episode 3. Weihnacht = The best Christmas ever, 1935 -- Disc 3. Episode 4. Reichshoherstrabe = The highway, 1938. Episode 5. Auf und davon un zuruck = Up and away and back, 1938-1939. Episode 6. Heimatfront = The home front, 1943 -- Disc 4. Episode 7. Die Liebe der Soldaten = Soldiers and love, 1944. Episode 8. Der Amerikaner = The American, 1945-1947 -- Disc 5. Episode 9. Hermannchen = Little Hermann, 1955-1956 -- Disc 6. Episode 10. Die stolzen Jahre = The proud years, 1967-1969. Episode 11. Das Fest der Lebenden und der Tot = The feast of the living and the dead, 1982.
Summary:
A massive chronicle of life in Germany, from 1919 to 1982, as reflected in the fluctuating fortunes of the members of one family, initially peasant-farmers, in the fictitious village of Schachbach in the Rhineland. An extraordinary succession of mostly ordinary events and characters--history seen from ground level--vividly acted by a huge cast of both professional and nonprofessional actors.
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