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Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision

2013 · 225 min

A slow, absorbing black-and-white immersion in a rural village's hardships, dreams and small cruelties, felt more than told.

Directed by: Edgar Reitz
Genres: Drama, History
Starring: Jan Dieter Schneider, Antonia Bill, Maximilian Scheidt

Overview: Follow-up to the TV trilogy “Heimat”, this time for cinemas, set again in the fictional village Schabbach in the Hunsrück region of Rhineland-Palatinate.

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Directed by: Edgar Reitz
Genres: Drama, History
Starring: Jan Dieter Schneider, Antonia Bill, Maximilian Scheidt

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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
bleakstrength 1 of 3
warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: family
class
ambition
isolation
fate
Places: countryside
small town
home
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: serialised
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Action	2
Horror	1
Humour	2
Realism	8
Romance	4
Tension	4
Darkness	6
Complexity	7
Emotional weight	8

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Genres: drama, history
Directed by: Edgar Reitz
Written by: Gert Heidenreich, Edgar Reitz
Starring: Jan Dieter Schneider, Antonia Bill, Maximilian Scheidt, Marita Breuer, Rüdiger Kriese, Philine Lembeck, Mélanie Fouché, Eva Zeidler
Music: Michael Riessler
Cinematography: Gernot Roll
Runtime: 225 min
Country: Germany, France
Languages: German

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