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Heimat

2012 · 91 min

A quiet, bittersweet look at a marriage and cultural displacement, mixing gentle humor with emotional unease.

Directed by
Réka Kinsces
Genres
Comedy, Drama, Family
Starring
Zsolt Bogdán, Krisztina Kerekes, Atilla Tóth
Overview
Zsuzsi and Sàndor are well-integrated foreigners: successful at work, the children healthy, their own house freshly made. But it does not work in bed anymore. A couple therapy could help. It quickly becomes clear that the happiness of the Barabássy couple is only seemingly perfect. Sàndor's dreams are too big and too materialistic, Zsuzsi's longing too indefinite to be satisfied. Luckily, Zsuzsi's mother in distant Budapest does not know about all this. Zsuzsi and her often talk on the phone - the only opportunity to exchange their native language. That changes when Zsuzsi's old friend Rita turns up unexpectedly with her boyfriend Istvan to shoot a documentary about Hungary abroad. All at once, the home is so close and your own husband so far away.

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Directed by
Réka Kinsces
Genres
Comedy, Drama, Family
Starring
Zsolt Bogdán, Krisztina Kerekes, Atilla Tóth
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 1 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • identity
  • family
  • love
  • isolation
  • betrayal
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
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  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
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Action1
Horror0
Humour3
Realism8
Romance4
Tension4
Darkness4
Complexity5
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
comedy, drama, family
Directed by
Réka Kinsces
Written by
Erzsébet Rácz, Réka Kinsces
Starring
Zsolt Bogdán, Krisztina Kerekes, Atilla Tóth, Hilda Péter, Eszter Csákány, Martin Leutgeb, Mandana Mansouri, Henning Paulmann
Runtime
91 min
Country
Germany, Hungary
Languages
German

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