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Heimat is the overall title of several series of films in 32 episodes written and directed by Edgar Reitz which view life in Germany between 1919 and 2000 through the eyes of a family from the Hunsrück area of the Rhineland. Personal and domestic life is set against glimpses of wider social and political events. The combined length of the 32 films is 53 hours and 25 minutes, making it one of the longest series of feature-length films in cinema history.
The title Heimat is a German word meaning "homeland". Its use is partly an ironic reference to the film genre known as Heimatfilm which was popular in Germany in the 1950s. Heimatfilms were noted for their rural settings, sentimental tone and simplistic morality.
Aesthetically, all three series are notable for their frequent switching between color and black-and-white film to convey different emotional states.
Heimat (“Home”; 1893) is a play by the German dramatist Hermann Sudermann. The play, either in the original German or in translations, was commonly also known as Magda, the name of the heroine. It was thought by some to be the most widely known and the most successful drama of the end of the 19th-century.
Heimat is a 1938 German drama film directed by Carl Froelich and starring Zarah Leander, Heinrich George and Ruth Hellberg. The film's melodramatic storyline portrays the return of a leading singer to her hometown, where her father wishes her to settle down and marry. It is based on the 1893 play Heimat by Hermann Sudermann.
Froelich won the award for best director at the 1938 Venice Film Festival for this film.
Heimat is a German word with no English equivalent that denotes the relationship of a human being towards a certain spatial social unit.
Heimat may also refer to:
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Heimat (play), an 1893 play by Hermann Sudermann
- Heimat (1938 film), by Carl Froelich, based on the play
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Heimat (film series), by Edgar Reitz
- Heimat (1984 film), the first film in the series
- Heimat (schooner)