(aka "The Second Heimat" or "The Second Homeland: Chronicle of a Youth" or "Die Zweite Heimat: Leaving Home")
directed by Edgar Reitz
Germany 1992
While not a prolific member of “Der Neue Deutsche Film”, Reitz was one
of the founding fathers, along with Alexander Kluge of “Die Hochschule für
Gestaltung” and began as a filmmaker because of the Oberhausen manifest.
It would take almost twenty years before he would step out from the
shadows of Wenders, Schlöndorff, Herzog and Fassbinder, and with “Heimat”
create one of the key works and milestones of “Der Neue Deutsche Film”,
which according to Variety was “the fulfilment of all the hopes of the
New German cinema over the past two decades.”
After five years of production, “Heimat” was born in 1984. Perhaps the
best German television series to date, even surpassing Fassbinder’s epic
“Berlin Alexanderplatz”, Edgar Reitz here told the story of the family
Simon and the little township of Schabbach from 1919 to 1982, and with it
showing how the decline of the republic after the first World War, the
rise and fall of the Third Reich, the “Wirtschaftswunder" of the fifties
and the changes during the seventies, affected not only Germany, but also
the common man. More than just a chronicle of German and a simple German
family, “Heimat” was, according to Reitz, the story of the common man, who
always loses out, who always is an innocent bystander to history; A
sentiment Reitz continues in his last instalment, "Heimat 3", where he
tells the story of German from the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 to
2002.
In 1992, Reitz returned with “Die Zweite Heimat”, here retelling part of
the chronicle with the story of Hermann Simon, during the sixties and
seventies, and his experiences in Munich. The title is significant,
meaning "the second home", which not only refers to Hermann who leaves
Schabbach and moves to Munich, but also suggests a change in the German
ideology during the period. Hermann's move to Munich here suggests a
moving away from the old and traditional values, into more individualism.
His journey thus becomes a metaphore for the period, which again only puts
his return to Schabbach into a greater context and perspective. It is
about, where one belongs.
While lacking the historical scope of “Heimat”, Reitz instead expands his
story by introducing a complex array of people and history, experimenting
with colour (alternatively shooting in black and white, then colour) and
time (some episodes lasts a few hours, some a day, some months) as
signifiers, and using music and his mise-en-scene more elaborately. The
shorter time span allowed Reitz to examine history and characters with a
depth, which the original couldn’t, and once again Reitz tested the
patience of the viewer by making his second instalment ten hours longer,
to a total of 25 hours for 13 episodes.
Not so much an in media res sequel to “Heimat”, “Die Zweite Heimat” stands
for itself and both works cannot be compared directly. Instead of telling
the story of Germany history by proxy, Reitz here captures the spirit of
the sixties and in terms the disillusion that followed in the seventies
from the perspective of music and film, love and hate, friends and lovers.
With "Heimat", Reitz has allowed the Germans to recapture their history,
their past and their country as their "home". A testament of “Der Neue
Deutsche Film” and one of the greatest achievements in story telling.
Theatrical Release: September 6-9, 1992 Prinzregententheater München (Germany)
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Image Originally shot on 35mm film, the transfer is from a newly restored master. The black and white sequences are sharp with solid black and good to great details. The colour sequences are more soft, lesser detail, but a great colour palette. The differences is most like due to the different stocks of film. Simply a great transfer. The Sound The sound is the original 2.0 Dolby Digital mono. It is completely free of noise, dialogue is crystal clear. The Subtitles The subtitles are based on a decent translation, but lacks the beautiful German language sentence compositions, reducing tense to simple past tense and present. While those who understand German can enjoy the great melodic language, and those who don't will understand the meaning of it. As such, it is a good translation. Box info Disc 1 (bitrate: 4.28 / 16 chapters): The Time Of The First Song (1:56:01) Two Strange Eyes (1:55:11) - perfect Disc 2 (bitrate: 4.58 / 16 chapters): Jealousy and Pride (1:55:44) Ansgar's Death (1:39:59) Disc 3 (bitrate: 4.27 / 16 chapters): The Game With Freedom (1:59:50) Kennedy's Children (1:48:36) Disc 4 (bitrate: 4.50 / 16 chapters): Christmas Wolves (1:49:44) The Wedding (2:00:03) Disc 5 (bitrate: 3.92 / 16 chapters): The Eternal Daughter (1:57:49) The End of the Future (2:11:09) Disc 6 (bitrate: 4.14 / 16 chapters): Time of Silence (1:57:39) A Time of Many Words (1:59:01) Disc 7 (bitrate: 4.47 / 16 chapters): Art Or Life (1:58:46) Total running time: 25:09:32 Episode Guide PART ONE: 1960 - Hermann Die Zeit der Ersten Lieder (The First Songs), 116 minutes PART TWO: 1960-1961 - Juan Zwei fremde Augen (A Stranger's Eyes), 115 minutes PART THREE: 1961 - Evelyne Eifersucht und Stolz (Jealousy and Pride), 116 minutes PART FOUR: 1961-1962 - Ansgar Ansgars Tod (Ansgar's Death), 100 minutes PART FIVE: 1962 - Helga Das Spiel mit der Freitheit (Playing with Freedom), 120 minutes PART SIX: 1963 - Alex Kennedys Kinder (Kennedy's Children), 109 minutes PART SEVEN: 1963 - Clarissa Weihnachtswölfe (Christmas Wolves), 110 minutes PART EIGHT: 1964 - Schnüsschen Die Hochzeit (The Wedding), 120 minutes PART NINE: 1965 - Fraülein Cerphal Die Ewige Tochter (The Eternal Daughter), 118 minutes PART TEN: 1966 - Reinhard Das Ende der Zukunft (The End of the Future), 132 minutes PART ELEVEN: 1967-1968 - Rob Zeit des Schweigens (A Time of Silence), 118 minutes PART TWELVE: 1968-1969 - Stefan Die Zeit der vielen Worte (The Time of Many Words), 119 minutes PART THIRTEEN: 1970 - Hermann and Clarissa Kunst oder Leben (Art or Life), 119 minutes More info: Heimat.de |
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