Heimat (film)

Home is the title of a film tetralogy of writer and director Edgar Reitz. Main place of the event is the fictional community Schabbach in the Hunsrück.

The Movies

• Prologue: Stories from the Hunsrück villages (1981 )
• Heimat - A German Chronicle (1984 )
• The second home - Chronicle of Youth ( 1992)
• Heimat 3 - A Chronicle of Endings and Beginnings (2004)
• Epilogue: History Fragments - The Women (2006)

The individual parts of the trilogy were named as part of the DVD release home 1, home 2 home and 3.

• 2012 Edgar Reitz turned under the title The other home a kindred with the Heimat trilogy film, which deals with the emigration of many Hunsrücker to Brazil mid-19th century. The story turns back to the Simon family, but in 1840. Center is again the Simon- wrought from the first three home - scales. The village Gehlweiler has been restored as the main location with elaborate scenes of the 19th century. The screenplay was written by Reitz together with Gert Heidenreich. The production of the movie is made ​​possible with the cooperation with the German subsidiary Degeto and the channel arte. World premiere was at the Film Festival in Venice August 29, 2013, Germany premiere took place with two simultaneous performances in simmering in the Hunsrück on 28 September 2013. Theatrical release was the Day of German Unity on October 3, 2013.

Background

The events of the films are to a large extent authentic nature. Reitz and his co -author Peter Steinbach they wore of old newspapers, own memories and the stories of the villagers together and linked them into a fictional oeuvre, the (semi - ) has documentary features.

Home is also a chronicle of German history. "The film tells of the way to fascism, from the Nazi era, the reconstruction and the economic miracle with its sequelae. It is a film about love and death, about remembering and forgetting. Home is the story of those who are always losers, and of the others who - like a cat or Lucie -. Always fall back on your feet "

Karsten Witte, critics of the time wrote: " home translates the great German history in a dimension in which it is stripped of the size, that of the little people who live their lives in dignity without size. Reitz directs his film by the heat flow history: a rare stroke of luck "

Unlike home movie genre of the postwar years the concept of home is not glorified in Edgar Reitz, but comes therefore realistic. Stylistically particularly striking is the one to switch between black and white and color footage, was philosophizes dignified about the lingering aura of the films, while Edgar Reitz and his cinematographer Gernot Roll could not assert common enough that they are in the process followed no sophisticated theory, but the choice of materials have often made spontaneously. A major criterion here was the idea that color impressions at certain motives played a role in our memories of the past. Also held in the precision and deliberateness of Reitz 's narrative rhythm much praise among viewers and critics. Home found - as well as The Second home - even international attention.