Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter The epic films of Edgar Reitz have been compared by some to the works of Tolstoy, by others to soap operas. Reitz himself says that ...

Heimat 2: Chronicle of a Generation 1992 23 hr 36 mins Drama, Documentary Watchlist The movie consist of 13 separate episodes each handling a period between 1960 and 1970. The length of these periods ...

Edgar Reitz's epic 1984 "Heimat" films heralded a new era in German cinema, portraying history differently, becoming part of Germany's cultural heritage. In 1984, the Venice Film Festival invited ...

"Heimat 3: A Chronicle of Endings and Beginnings" -- divided into six episodes -- satisfyingly brings together the setting of writer-helmer Edgar Reitz's first "Heimat" series (1984) with the restless ...

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When Edgar Reitz began planning the first batch of Heimat - either a television series with a cinematic sensibility or a huge film that works well on the small screen - his main models were literary.