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Heimat / Homeland


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  Heimat  / Homeland Review
Tookey's Rating
7 /10
 
Average Rating
7.25 /10
 
Starring
Marita Breuer, Michael Lesch, Dieter Schaad
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Directed by: Edgar Reitz
Written by: Edgar Reitz, Peter Steinback

 
 
 
Released: 1984
   
Genre: DRAMA
FOREIGN
EPIC
   
Origin: W. Germany
   
Length: 924
 
 


 
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"An astounding new piece of film-making, a huge, sprawling family chronicle... Catch what you can of it. It's spell-binding."
(Richard Barkley, Sunday Express)
"If you have a minute to spare, I would like to tell you about a remarkable new film. Better still if you have 15 hours 36 minutes to spare, I would urge you to see it... [It] has the hook of any good film narrative... Reitz directs with a velvet glove, slipping effortlessly... from colour to black-and-white, coaxing from his enormous cast performances that spring naturally to life."
(David Castell, Sunday Telegraph)
"The slow insidious process of anti-semitism, fascist values and nazi supremacy are shown enveloping all the facets of rural daily life, like a creeping cancer."
(Virginia Dignam, Morning Star)
"Humane and comic, it's very finely acted, exact in period detail, and immaculately photographed in monochrome with occasional bursts of colour of an epiphanal resonance. A magnificent achievement."
(David Thompson, Time Out)


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