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Year: 1984
Director: Edgar Reitz
Plot: Unlike other feature-length versions of European TV miniseries, Heimat loses nothing in its translation to the big screen. It was 15 1/2 hours on TV, and remained 15 1/2 hours in theatres! Produced for German television over a 5-year period, Heimat details the turbulent years between 1919 and 1982 through the eyes of the citizens of a small, fictional German village. The central character is Marita Breuer, who matures from a fresh-faced teen to a wrinkled, grim-visaged survivor of the best and the worst life has to offer. The final sequences, far removed from such traumatic collective experiences as the inflation of 1923 and the war of the 1940s, tend to be more sentimental than the earlier passages, but are no less masterfully handled by director Edgar Reitz. Also worth noting is cinematographer Gernot Roll's creative use of color, often switching between hues and monochrome within a scene for dramatic impact. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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]]>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:52:25 GMTHeimat1984Edgar ReitzUnlike other feature-length versions of European TV miniseries, Heimat loses nothing in its translation to the big screen. It was 15 1/2 hours on TV, and remained 15 1/2 hours in theatres! Produced for German television over a 5-year period, Heimat details the turbulent years between 1919 and 1982 through the eyes of the citizens of a small, fictional German village. The central character is Marita Breuer, who matures from a fresh-faced teen to a wrinkled, grim-visaged survivor of the best and the worst life has to offer. The final sequences, far removed from such traumatic collective experiences as the inflation of 1923 and the war of the 1940s, tend to be more sentimental than the earlier passages, but are no less masterfully handled by director Edgar Reitz. Also worth noting is cinematographer Gernot Roll's creative use of color, often switching between hues and monochrome <I>within</I> a scene for dramatic impact. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide123http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t65979m06jy.jpghttp://www.spout.com/films/Heimat/80207/default.aspxFilm http://www.spout.com/blogs/quint/archive/2008/2/18/25251.aspx Post By: quint
Post To: An inordinate number of peppers
Post Date: 2/18/2008 8:02:46 AM
Body: My father's side of my family is German. They came to America in the late 19th century, looking for work and opportunity in the furniture trade. My great great grandfather was a cabinet maker and an otherwise successful future was cut short by tragedy in 1929 when my great grandfather, an only child, was killed in a night club fire in Detroit just one month before the stock market crash. He left one son behind, my grandfather, and that narrow thread leads to me. I've spent a good deal of time at the library trying to reconnect with these roots. To understand the patterns of thought in my own mind. It's a romantic dream I suppose. The stories handed down to me feel more like legends than truths. Among them is the fact that an ancestor of mine was once the burgermeister of Baden-Baden. My grandfather was supposedly among the first to cross the bridge into Baden-Baden, liberating that town with the Third Army. He shot a Nazi officer and took a French police pistol off his body. This is now in my father's possession. A family treasure. Watching this series was the most powerful signifier of the characteristics I inherited down this path. It traces an extended German family in a small village in the Hunsbuck from the end of WWI to 1982. There were innumerable moments watching this series (Netflix has it) where I recognized myself in the choices characters made. This sort of cultural resonance was a real coming home for me. Maria, Paul, Anton, Hermann, Maria Goot, Glassich: these were like long lost family. When Anton goes to Baden-Baden to visit Paul to ask his advice about the sale of his optics company to a multi-national corporation, I was on the edge of my seat. That was my ancestral home. Finally, I got a taste of that German spa town. Baden-Baden. My Baden-Baden. I've always been a fan of German cinema. Fassbinder and Herzog have inspired me and confounded me. But here, with this monumental work by Edgar Reitz and the sequels, I have a true glimpse of what my family history might have been had we stayed in Germany all those years ago. My family's history could have easily been a branch of this tree, a narrow thread off in America that might have circled back around to attend a funeral if the timing were right, much like the Brazilians who attended Maria's funeral. This connection to what is German in me is a great service Reitz has done for the German people. I can't express enough how important this series has been to me. When Glassich scooted his chair closer to the speakers to hear over the racket of confused pub patrons the premiere of Hermann's avant-garde composition, (poor Glassich the town fool, his scabby hands hidden in his gloves), his eyes wide, his lips open, he alone hearing the beautiful sound of the nightingale amidst the electronic processing, he alone overwhelmed with the beauty, I wept as well. I felt like poor Glassich, hearing at last the strange and beautiful music of his homeland.
]]>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:02:46 GMTquintAn inordinate number of peppers2/18/2008 8:02:46 AMMy father&#39;s side of my family is German. They came to America in the late 19th century, looking for work and opportunity in the furniture trade. My great great grandfather was a cabinet maker and an otherwise successful future was cut short by tragedy in 1929 when my great grandfather, an only child, was killed in a night club fire in Detroit just one month before the stock market crash. He left one son behind, my grandfather, and that narrow thread leads to me. I&#39;ve spent a good deal of time at the library trying to reconnect with these roots. To understand the patterns of thought in my own mind. It&#39;s a romantic dream I suppose. The stories handed down to me feel more like legends than truths. Among them is the fact that an ancestor of mine was once the burgermeister of Baden-Baden. My grandfather was supposedly among the first to cross the bridge into Baden-Baden, liberating that town with the Third Army. He shot a Nazi officer and took a French police pistol off his body. This is now in my father&#39;s possession. A family treasure. Watching this series was the most powerful signifier of the characteristics I inherited down this path. It traces an extended German family in a small village in the Hunsbuck from the end of WWI to 1982. There were innumerable moments watching this series (Netflix has it) where I recognized myself in the choices characters made. This sort of cultural resonance was a real coming home for me. Maria, Paul, Anton, Hermann, Maria Goot, Glassich: these were like long lost family. When Anton goes to Baden-Baden to visit Paul to ask his advice about the sale of his optics company to a multi-national corporation, I was on the edge of my seat. That was my ancestral home. Finally, I got a taste of that German spa town. Baden-Baden. My Baden-Baden. I&#39;ve always been a fan of German cinema. Fassbinder and Herzog have inspired me and confounded me. But here, with this monumental work by Edgar Reitz and the sequels, I have a true glimpse of what my family history might have been had we stayed in Germany all those years ago. My family&#39;s history could have easily been a branch of this tree, a narrow thread off in America that might have circled back around to attend a funeral if the timing were right, much like the Brazilians who attended Maria&#39;s funeral. This connection to what is German in me is a great service Reitz has done for the German people. I can&#39;t express enough how important this series has been to me. When Glassich scooted his chair closer to the speakers to hear over the racket of confused pub patrons the premiere of Hermann&#39;s avant-garde composition, (poor Glassich the town fool, his scabby hands hidden in his gloves), his eyes wide, his lips open, he alone hearing the beautiful sound of the nightingale amidst the electronic processing, he alone overwhelmed with the beauty, I wept as well. I felt like poor Glassich, hearing at last the strange and beautiful music of his homeland. http://www.spout.com/blogs/quint/archive/2008/1/19/24057.aspx Post By: quint
Post To: An inordinate number of peppers
Post Date: 1/19/2008 3:34:05 AM
Body: So, I'm only two episodes into the series, but I feel compelled to wite about it already. I love Heimat. I am so glad that I have a lot of episodes ahead of me. The subtle characterisations, the dense and lovable characters, the people's history of a very traumatic time. Fascinating and important.
]]>Sat, 19 Jan 2008 08:34:05 GMTquintAn inordinate number of peppers1/19/2008 3:34:05 AMSo, I&#39;m only two episodes into the series, but I feel compelled to wite about it already. I love Heimat. I am so glad that I have a lot of episodes ahead of me. The subtle characterisations, the dense and lovable characters, the people&#39;s history of a very traumatic time. Fascinating and important. http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/history/MemberTagFilms.aspxhistory
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