Heimat (film)
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Directed by | Edgar Reitz |
Produced by | Edgar Reitz |
Written by | Edgar Reitz |
Release date(s) | September 16, 1984 |
Running time | 924 min |
Language | German |
Heimat are three series of 30 episodic films by
The title
Aesthetically, all three series are notable for their artful switching between colour and
Heimat
Heimat, the original series, premiered in 1984 and follows the life of Maria Simon (
Episode List
The Second Heimat
Die Zweite Heimat (literally The Second Heimat, and called, in the
Episode List
1. The Time Of The First Songs (Hermann, 1960)
2. Two Strange Eyes (Juan, 1960–61)
3. Jealousy And Pride (Evelyne, 1961)
4. Ansgar's Death (Ansgar, 1961–62)
5. The Game With Freedom (Helga, 1962)
6. Kennedy's Children (Alex, 1963)
7. Christmas Wolves (Clarissa, 1963)
8. The Wedding (Schnüsschen, 1964)
9. The Eternal Daughter (Fräulein Cerphal, 1965)
10. The End Of The Future (Reinhard, 1966)
11. Time Of Silence (Rob, 1967–68)
12. A Time Of Many Words (Stefan, 1968–69)
13. Art Or Life (Hermann And Clarissa, 1970)
Plot
Hermann is a musical prodigy whose teenage romance with 26-year old soul mate Klärchen was considered scandalous by his conservative home village. It resulted in her being expelled and coerced not to contact him ever again. Hermann was crushed and vowed never to love again and to leave his wicked village forever. He arrives in Munich at age 19, overwhelmed and with no place to stay. He finds a private room opening in a month, leaving the deposit with a flamboyant Hungarian woman. His friend Renate, a law student, allows Hermann to sleep on her floor but he is put off by her sexual advances. He finally rooms with Clemens, a fellow Hunsrücker who plays jazz drums in Munich's clubs. Hermann is accepted into the music conservatory, where he meets the incredibly talented Juan from Chile, whose school application is rejected on the grounds his marimbas are "folklore". Hermann and Juan network with the avant-garde culture surrounding the conservatory, including film students, while Hermann takes on odd jobs and Juan works as a gymnast teacher. Both Juan and Hermann have a brief fling with the beautiful cellist Clarissa, who fears intimacy but is drawn to those who fear it too. The students are gradually drawn to the Foxhole, a mansion headed by a wealthy art patroness said to be a "collector of artists".
Heimat 3
Heimat 3 (subtitled Chronik einer Zeitenwende — Chronicle of a Changing Time) premiered in 2004. It picks up Hermann's story in 1989 as he returns to Schabbach and depicts the events of the period from the fall of the
Episode List
1. The Happiest People in the World (1989)
2. The World Champions (1990)
3. The Russians are Coming (1992–93)
4. Everyone's Doing Well (1995)
5. The Heirs (1997)
6. Farewell to Schabbach (1999)
Possibility of Heimat 4
When asked in 2005 if he would make a Heimat 4 Reitz replied "For 25 years, Heimat has dominated my life. At the moment, I'm calling it a trilogy, because it's a symbolic way of finishing it. But it is always possible to continue it because, by its very nature, Heimat is something that can never end."
Criticism
Heimat has been criticized for its selective interpretation of
Character histories
The Simon family
The Wiegand family
The Schirmer family
Trivia
References
External links
- (German) Heimat script
- (German) The Second Heimat script
- (German) The Third Heimat official website
- Heimat at the Internet Movie Database
- The Second Heimat at the Internet Movie Database
- Heimat 3 at the Internet Movie Database
- Long article about Reitz and Heimat by Carole Angier, from Sight and Sound, 1991
- Episode guides for all three series at bbc.co.uk
- heimat123.net – an English-language fansite with an introduction to and discussion about each episode
- (German) (with some English) heimat123.de – a very comprehensive German fansite
- (German) Photos of Heimat und Heimat3 film locations at Hunsrück, Germany
- (German) Heimat-Fanpage.de - a German fansite with lots of multimedial elements (musik, video, archive etc.)
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