HEIMAT (Part 5)
Film
5. Chapter - The soldiers’ love, The American (1943-1947)How Anton experiences the shooting of Jews at the Eastern Front as camera assistant of the propaganda company. How Otto reunites with Maria and sees his child that meets Hermännchen. How lovers spend the night conversing. How Otto is killed while attempting to secure bomb duds. How grandfather Matthias dies and how the AAA emplacement near Schabbach is bombed. How Eduard and Lucie’s villa is seized by the Americans. How Paul Simon returns from America as a rich businessman and how he and Maria have become estranged from one another. How Paul organizes a feast for the inhabitants of Schabbach. How Klärchen, a relative who had to flee the bombed Ruhr district joins the Simon-family. How Anton returns from Russian war captivity by foot and decides to found a factory. How Katharina dies and Paul departs before her funeral.
Directed by Edgar Reitz, (1980-1984), restoration 2011-2014 | Original German version with English subtitles, 156 min.
D: Marita Breuer (Maria), Dieter Schaad (Paul), Karin Rasenack (Lucie), Rüdiger Weigang (Eduard), Gertrud Bredel (Katharina), Willi Burger (Mathias), Sabine Wagner (Martha), Gabriele Blum (Lotti), Eva Maria Bayerwaltes (Pauline), Eva Maria Schneider (Marie-Goot),Markus Reiter (Anton), Gerd Rigauer (Gschrey),Hans-Günter Kylau (Zielke), Anke
Jendrychowski (Lotti), Alexandra Katins (Ursel), Ralf Maria Beils (Specht) Kurt Wagner (Glasisch), Johannes Lobewein(Wiegand), Johannes Metzdorf (Pieritz), Gudrun Landgrebe (Klärchen), Michael Kausch (Ernst), Markus Reiter (Anton), Joseph E. Jones (Antons Chauffeur), Andreas Mertens (Horstchen), Frank Kleid (Hermännchen), Joachim Bernhard (Pollack), Helga Bender(Martina)