HEIMAT (Part 4)
Film
4. Chapter - Up, up and away and then back, Home Front (1938-1943)How Pauline and Robert enjoy that their clock and jewelry business is going well. How Martina becomes engaged to Pollack, Robert’s companion. How a letter arrives from Paul from America and how Matthias blinds his father while reading. How Otto is transferred to Trier and how Maria doesn’t tell him she’s carrying his child. How Maria goes to Hamburg with her son Anton, where Paul’s boat from America is anchoring. How Paul is unable to leave the boat, because he receives the Aryan certificate too late and how the boat departs with him still on it. How Hitler’s army attacks Poland and starts the Second World War. How Otto secures bomb duds in the Eifel and meets Maria’s son Ernst. How Martha, Anton’s war bride, comes to Schabbach from Hamburg and how she’s married to him via telephone while he remains at the Eastern Front. How Ernst drops a bunch of flowers for the bride from a fighter plane. How Wilfried, the SS-man, mentions the massacring of the Jews in concentration camps during a concert in Lucie’s villa.