HEIMAT: A CHRONICLE OF GERMANY

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• Release Year: 1984
• Genre: Drama, Foreign
• Plot: Edgar Reitz's monumental 11-part series is an event. It is presented here as a six-DVD set. The 15 1/2-hour saga tells the story of the village of Schabbach from 1919 to 1982. The chronicle unfolds through the eyes of Maria Simon as she marries, raises her sons, and grows old while Germany changes around her. The Simon family, like the rest of the German people, endures the hard times after World War I, struggles with the rise and fall of Nazism and World War II, and then prospers in the rebuilding of the country in the postwar era. Despite the film's sweeping scope, the tone is intimate as Reitz pays attention to the smallest detail of daily life - for it is the small moments in life that are the most memorable. Epic yet intimate, entertaining yet bittersweet. 'Heimat' offers a riveting portrait of twentieth-century history as seen through the eyes of ordinary people.
• Cast: Marita Breuer; Kurt Wagner; Rüdiger Weigang; Eva Maria Schneider; Karin Rasenack; Johannes Lobewein; Gertrud Bredel; Eva Maria Bayerwaltes; Hans-Jürgen Schatz; Johannes Metzdorf; Wolfram Wagner; Willi Burger; Arno Lang; Sabine Wagner; Helga Bender; Alexander Scholz; Jörg Hube; Michael Kausch; Gabriele Blum; Rolf Roth; Joachim Bernhard; Roland Bongard; Manfred Kühn; Mathias Kniesbeck; Dieter Schaad; Ingo Hoffmann; Gudrun Landgrebe; Stefan Kuhn; Gertrud Scherer; Elfriede Scholz; Ralf Maria Beils; Andreas Mertens; Markus Reiter; Peter Harting; Michael Lesch; Karin Kienzler; Otto Henn; Konrad Lindenkreuz; Ulrich Lindenkreuz; Jörg Richter; Anke Jendrychowski; Doris Gistke; Werner Klockner; Virginie Moréno; Josef Peil; Otto Prochnow; Margarete Walther; Heinz Baumgarten; Richard Brandel; Hubert Gleissner; Karin Groben; Norbert Grübl; Willi Jakob; Joseph E. Jones; Alexandra Katins; Jürgen Kemmerer; Christel Kuhn; Hermann Josef Loskill; Ernst Messner; Peter Paillon; Gerd Rigauer; Kurt Armin Scholl; Heiko Ströher; Joachim Vacano; Bobo Vogt; Frank Wies; Marliese Assmann; Bernd Eichinger; Manfred Kuhn; Juliane Damm; Hans Koppenhöfer; Rudolf Wessely; Günther Külzer; Reinhard Mosmann; Manfred Zimmermann; Franz Bauer; Frieda Bauer; Anna Maria Bohl; Jutta Boll; Philipp Brendel; Hermann Bruckner; Herbert Busch; Rascal Buzay; Christoph Böhm; Gerhard Christ; Marcos de Lesseps; Johannes Dennhoff; Thierry Dezaphix; Markus Dillenburg; Hilde Dämgen; Karl Elsen; Oskar Frank; Horst Franz; Hans-Joachim Frey; Günther Geiermann; Susi Gerloff; Helmut Gistke; Mike Gross; Waldmar Groß; Wilhelm Gräff; Ernst Hammen; Elke Henrich; Horst Henrich; Khue The Hoa; Vam Ham Hou; Gerhard Huhn; Ingrid Isermann; Ralph Isermann; Karl-Joseph Johann; Sylvia Kamm; Dieter Klahr; Frank Kleid; Andrea Koloschinski; Peter Korbion; Kim Kremer; Thomas Kylau; Ruth Köppler; Gertrud Kühnreich; Heinrich Land; Pater J. Lennartz; Gerit Leschnik; Rüdiger Liller; Heike Macht; Margot Mahler; Hans Rainer Müller; Gerd-Peter Münden; Annemarie Neuhaus; Thomas Palm; Uli Papstein; Maria Anders Paton; Theo Pfeiffer; Gisela Pick; Dietmar Plenz; Manfred Plenz; Johanna Radzik; Roland Rau; Rudi Roth; Stephanie Roth; Ernst-Günther Rotter; Ann Ruth; Irene Rüdiger; Erich Schauß; Sigrid Scherer; Wolfgang Scherer; Karl-Heinz Scherschligt; Markus Schlarb; Tanja Schlarb; Jakob Schlosser; Franz-Joseph Schmoll; Hans Schneider; Berthold Schuck; Gabriele Schumacher; Martin Seibel; Birgit Selbst; Horst Selbst; Petra Spengler; Michael Stephan; Jürgen Streck; Kurt Stumm; Jörg Stäglich; Alice Sulzbacher; Toni Sulzbacher; Hans Theis; Wolfgang Unterholzner; Hans Vogtel; Elfriede Wagner; Friederike Wagner; Lilli Weckmüller; Jens Werkheiser; Roswitha Werkheiser; Inge Wolf; Kurt Wolfinger; Eli Zickerow; Hans-Günter Kylau; Edgar Reitz; Peter F. Steinbach
• Director: Edgar Reitz
• Runtime: 15:25
• Media Format: Series