Home from Home (2013 film)

• January Dieter Schneider: Jacob Simon
• Antonia Bill: Jettchen
• Maximilian Scheidt: Gustav Simon
• Marita Breuer: Margaret Simon
• Rüdiger Kriese: Johann Simon
• Philina Lembeck: Flori Nchen
• Mélanie Fouché: Lena
• Eva Zeidler: grandmother
• Reinhard Paul Unkel
• Barbara Philipp: Woman Niem
• Christoph Luser: Franz Olm
• Rainer Kühn: Dr. Zwirner
• Konstantin Buchholz: The young Baron
• Andreas Külzer: village priest Wiegand
• Julia Prochnow: midwife Sophie
• Werner Herzog: Alexander von Humboldt
• Jeroen Perceval: emigration Advertisers

The other home - Chronicle of a desire is a movie by Edgar Reitz from the year 2013, based on the derived also by Edgar Reitz film series home. The film focuses on the era of the pre-March period mid-19th century and the former wave of emigration from the Hunsrück to Brazil. He plays in the years 1840 to 1844 in a village in the Hunsrück and is about a farm boy who dreams of emigrating and to begin a new life. Theatrical release in Germany was the 3rd October 2013.

Content

Jacob Simon is a romantic gifted peasant boy and lives in the Hunsrück village Schabbach. He dreams of a new life in the jungles of Brazil. Prototype him the many emigrants of his time, leave the Germany to America. Together with his great love Jettchen he forges his new life plan. But when Jacob's brother Gustav returns from the Prussian military service, the love between Jacob and Jettchen is shaken, and Jacob's life develops completely different from what he has planned.

Background

After his three-part saga Edgar Reitz home wanted to film another Hunsrück history and chose the time of emigration to Germany in the mid -19th century. As a specific trigger for the new movie Reitz called the letter a nurse from Brazil, he got to home 3 during filming and in which he was told the woman that she had seen him on TV and he had great resemblance to her boss, who also Reitz hot. This results in a prolonged contact had shown that eventually led to the idea for the film. However, the aspect of Brazil have also plays a role in homeland 1: In the last episode, in which the main character Maria Simon dies, two men emerge from Brazil, which is also called Simon, and in the footsteps of their ancestors in Schabbach.

Edgar Reitz wanted to tell primarily a story about the wave of emigration in the Hunsrück -19th century with the "other home ". Recourse to " Schabbach " and the Simon family was rather means and not an end for him. In a press conference in April 2012 Reitz expressed that he did not necessarily want to tell the history of the Simon family. Reitz called it nevertheless be advantageous when fans of the Heimat trilogy already why go to the cinema alone because they are hoping for the movie to see the ancestors of the Simons. A prequel to the village Schabbach the film tells anyway only partly because many places and locations that are known from home 1-3 and were then rotated in the neighboring village Woppenroth, no longer appear in the film (such as the church, the Wiegand house, Schirmer house, the hall and the grocery store ). The hitherto known Schabbach is in the "other home " only seen in the Simon- forge.

Shooting

As the location Reitz chose again the already known from the other home squadrons forged in the Hunsrück village Gehlweiler. Reitz chose deliberately to make the film again in a real village and not in a pure setting. He wanted a historically grown urban structure and not artificially created. However, many scenes were built in Gehlweiler for filming and also the Simon Forge, which is known from the other home squadrons with plastered home front, received an imagined half-timbered facade.

The inhabitants of Gehlweiler were involved before the start of filming in the creative process of the film and voted overwhelmingly in favor of the transformation of their village as a location.

Beginning of the shooting was April 17, 2012, the work ended in August 2012. The world premiere took place on 29 August, 2013 at the Film Festival in Venice, Germany premiere was on September 28, 2013 in simmering (Hunsrück ).

Reviews

" With the new plant gives us Edgar Reitz many great movie moments: A village festival in a barn, the start of the first steam engine in the village; or the death of his grandfather at the loom, when for several minutes, the clack of the loom woods is heard, the camera gently floats through the house and suddenly the clicking stops. Or if the mother Jacob reminded that it still would be to get married at the time and that only there were the Flori Nchen that sing beautifully. " The other home " kindled in the mind of the spectator a storm of longing for distant and melancholy the transitory versus how it was ever before him in the movies. "

" A sweetish home movie happy ending is not. These have died in the course of the narrative too many children. The pictures of gaunt country doctor in his helplessness against the diphtheria epidemic in the memory stick as well as the silent desperate farewells when rejoin once families in the long treks emigrants. Hundreds of thousands have been washed out in a few decades from Southwest Germany, before the industrialization swallowed the masses of impoverished rural population. At this often forgotten chapter of German and European history to remember is not the least merit of the fourth "home". "

" Describing this vision of individual desire in the midst of collective coercion as a masterpiece would be wrong. The film is much more: a social history, a study of the slowness of the motorized world, a drama of collective life, a sophisticated psycho- study before the invention of psychology. [ ... ] You have to look at the frenetic, not ending applause from the audience of Venice, long to find in cinema history a similarly successful era work. "

" " The other home " is [ ... ] not easily consumable and rather bulky. You must get involved in these events, which may not always carry with one or another length all over the four hours of the film. And yet it manages the 80 -year-old Reitz once again to break down the big story on little stories. Through his characters Jacob and Gustav actually lived wave of emigration can be experienced by Brazil, the motivations of the people will understand. "

" The term" historical film " is being redefined. [ ... ] Cinematographer Gernot Roll line with its distinctive visual language in Cinemascope format all the work: As the dust grains sparkle on the loom in the incoming falling sunlight, endless covered wagon caravans act on the horizon like silhouettes, the shoeing horses for physical experience. Magically the interspersed Farbkolorierung - sometimes a flashing gold piece, the German flag, flat flowers. The film traces the lostness of the individual in a state of flux, the longing for a place where you belong. Some call him home. "

"Here is [ ... ] not the past, nachbebildert Entschwundenes, but a time from the inside filled with life. [...] A major chunk of the size of " The other home " is a shift in perspective. Edgar Reitz takes a look at Germany and thus to a Western Europe which now likes to see itself as strangers immigrants flooded region and yet was a continent of desperate, hopeful emigrants even once. "

" Especially by the almost unspectacular is this long but always intense journey through time to such a great viewing experience, a 225 minutes long trance. It appears like a last gasp of the auteur cinema of the late 20th century in the daily lives of digital images at the beginning of the 21st century, which are now consumed on tablets and smartphones. Movies like this probably the last great "home litter" the 81 -year-old director, there will be less and less on the big screen. Exactly why is also worth multiple viewing. There is just so much to see. "

" Reitz not only looks attentively, but also knows exactly what to show and what not, where the ellipse or the fast cutting help to another scene and where the stay worthwhile. In the home about 3, which was not poor soap opera turns, so he could always avoid feeling emotional Strippenzieherei without having to forego continued drama and tension. In the other home, it is the second half in which follow the events closer to each other, the abyss of history absorbs the protagonists. Some will leave, to Brazil or elsewhere, the others must be set up in this country. If they will inhabit a collective memory of earlier times, it is because they have dared to dream. "

Awards

• 2013: Bavarian Film Award in the category of writer Edgar Reitz and Gert Heidenreich
• 2013: Bavarian Film Award in the category of producer Edgar Reitz and Christian Reitz
• 2013: Prize of the German Film Critics for Best Feature Film
• 2013: Prize of the German Film Critics Best in category camera to Gernot Roll

Others

• For the role of Margaret Simon Edgar Reitz chose the actress Marita Breuer, who played the lead role of Maria Simon in the first home season.
• Andreas Külzer, who plays the role of the village priest, Wiegand, was seen in 3 home as Dieter Simon.
• Julia Prochnow, already seen in Heimat 3 as " Moni ", plays the village midwife.
• Set builders of the "other home " was Anton ( "Toni" ) Gerg, who has also developed Kulissenbauten in movies such as the " Brandner Kasper " and " Luther". Gerg died on the night of the fourth day of shooting in April 2012. A camera pan through the graveyard of Schabbach detects a grave, on which the name Toni Gerg is to read. In the film, there is another allusion to Toni Gerg: When the consumptive Margaret, supported by their sons Jacob and Gustav, on the edge of the flat field sits to inhale the fresh air, she suddenly has a vision. Your appear all of their deceased children. The first thing they mentioned " Toni, who lay in his bed and is no longer woke up". As can be seen the documentary " Making of home," died Toni Gerg at night in his bed, probably as a result of heart disease. The " Making of home " shows Edgar Reitz, as it sets the whole team about the death of Toni Gerg in knowledge.
• Edgar Reitz in the "other home " a cameo: Towards the end of the film he appears as a farmer on the field, which is asked by scholar Alexander von Humboldt (played by Werner Herzog), where is Schabbach was. Humboldt is in search of Jacob Simon, who has begun a correspondence with him over Brazil. This brief joint appearance of Reitz and Duke must also be seen as an ironic allusion to the different careers of two German filmmakers: one ( Duke ) went into the world, the other ( Reitz ) remained in the home.