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Heimkommen (2015)

Heimkommen poster
Directed by
Alex Feil
Country
Germany
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A lonely German grandfather fakes his own death to trick his busy family into coming home for Christmas. The ruse brings them together for a festive reunion that none of them expected.

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What happens

Heimkommen (German: [ˈhaɪmˌkɔmən] ; "Homecoming") and the related hashtag #heimkommen is a German commercial video for the supermarket corporation Edeka that went viral in November and December 2015. In the commercial, Arthur Nightingale plays a German grandfather faking his own death to reunite his family on Christmas. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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