Talk:Heimat (film)

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[edit] Expand summary

Someone who has seen the Heimat films and/or has access to the videos should write up a list and summary of each of the plot segments. Information about these films is pretty hard to find on the internet and more detailed information about the films would be very useful. 131.122.105.209 16:35, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Update: the German page has lots of info. If anyone can translate German there's is a lot that can be used from that source. 131.122.105.209 16:37, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

I added some info on the episodes, characters, and criticism. Hope that helps. I just finished watching the episodes and making the character list helped me resolve some things that weren't clear to me. The information is definitely hard to find on the Internet except in bits and pieces. -Rolypolyman 18:55, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] I don't agree with this sentence

In the article there is currently this sentence: "There is no treatment of the hyperinflationary spiral of the 1920s, the Great Depression, or the Jewish Holocaust of WWII."

This isn't really accurate. Characters in the 1920s episode refer to the inflation and cost of items, and periodically characters afterward will refer back to the hyperinflatonary period of the 1920s. Characters in the early 1930s refer to hardships they're facing, and characters in the early/mid Nazi era describe how better business is for them than it was in the earlier period. Moreover, Wilfried refers directly to the Holocaust in a WWII-era episode, and other characters refer to it more obliquely (Lucie, for example, in the 1945-1947 episode). The point of this series is to see the major events in Germany through the very specific prism of a remote, small village, so it's not Heimat's place to treat the Holocaust in the way a documentary on WWII, for example, would.

Personally, I think Heimat made a mistake by putting Otto in the Germany army despite his mother being Jewish (which, um, also makes him Jewish), which seems incredibly unlikely considering the lengths to which the Nazis went to determine who had "Jewish blood" in Germany, but that is different from saying the series has "no treatment of the Jewish Holocaust of WWII." It does treat that subject, but only from the perspective of a village not near any concentration camps. It's not really reasonable to expect an expose of, say, concentration camps in Poland when the perspective of the series is by definition so limited. Do you see what I mean? Can we work on rephrasing this section? Moncrief (talk) 16:52, 19 April 2008 (UTC)