Director: Edgar Reitz
Starring: Marita Breuer, Kurt Wagner, Rüdiger Weigang
Five years in the making, Heimat is one of the most compelling and highly praised dramas in television history. This epic tale of a family and their rural life in a small German village is told against the changing backdrop of a country’s turbulent history from 1919 to 1982. From the aftermath of the First World War, economic hardship, the rise and fall of Nazism, the Second World War and the decades that followed, life in the village goes on and the values and aspirations of the people at its’ heart are wonderfully brought to life in this gripping saga of an ordinary family living through extraordinary times.
Special Features
- Restored from the original negative by The Edgar Reitz Film Foundation
- Heimat – The Hunsruek Villages: Stories From The Film Locations Edgar Reitz’s 2-hour documentary ‘prologue’ to Heimat
- An interview with Edgar Reitz on the making of Heimat
- An interview with Christian Reitz on the restoration of Heimat
- An interview with Marita Breuer on acting in Heimat
- An introduction by Jan Harlan on the significance of Heimat for Stanley Kubrick
- A Visual Essay by Daniel Bird
