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HEIMAT II: CHRONICLE OF A GENERATION
(1992)
Heimat II: Chronicle of a Generation follows Hermann Simon, a musician,
through the turbulent decade of the 60's. The scope of politics, culture,
art, drugs, sex and alternative lifestyles of the decade decorate Simon's
life, as does the pervasive disenchantment with the world that came before.
All 25½ hours of the film (about a season of the average U.S. television
show) is a separate and distinct story from Edgar Reitz' other work Heimat:
A Chronicle of Germany. The first Heimat is described, by director Edgar
Reitz, as the story of those who remained in their towns and villages while
the second Heimat chronicles the lives of those who left those villages to
lead a different life.
Heimat II is more than the story of one man but rather the story of a time.
"...the movie experience of a lifetime," writes Michael Wilmington for the
Chicago Tribune.
"...A vast river of a film that sweeps up everything into a portrait of an
age," raves The Economist.
"...gripping and lyrical," writes Stephen Holden in the New York Times.
The film took 6 years to film, cost $25 million, had a script of over 2,143
pages, consists of 71 main roles, 310 smaller roles and used 372, 046 meters
of 35mm film.
A cinematic event, Heimat II won awards at the 1993 Baden-Baden TV Film
Festival and the Venice International Film Festival.
Release date: April 25, 2006
Pre-order date: April 4, 2006
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