Home from Home (2013)

Original title

Die andere Heimat - Chronik einer Sehnsucht

Directed by

Edgar Reitz

Genre

drama film, historical film

Country

Germany, France

Runtime

3h 50m

Rated

18A

Rating

7.7 of 10 from 55 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In the 1840s, the Simon family lives in a remote German village. A young man dreams of leaving for South America, but family duties and hard times keep him tied to his homeland.

slow-burnmelancholiccontemplativevisually starkintimateearnestquietly epicnostalgic

What happens

Home from Home (German: Die andere Heimat – Chronik einer Sehnsucht) is a 2013 German drama film directed by Edgar Reitz. It was screened out of competition at the 70th Venice International Film Festival. It is shot in black and white, but there are some colour sequences. It is a prequel to the Heimat film series and concerns the Simon family living in the fictional Hunsrück village of Schabbach from 1840 to 1844. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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