Heimat 3 A Chronicle of Endings and Beginnings: Part 1 The Happiest People in the World (2004)
(Das Glücklichste Volk der Welt)
Country: GER/GB
Technical: col/bw 106m
Director: Edgar Reitz
Cast: Salome Kammer, Henry Arnold, Uwe Steimle
Synopsis:
On the night the Berlin wall comes down, Hermann runs into Clarissa after years apart and together they decide to buy a crumbling ruin not far from Schabbach, and have it renovated by idle craftsmen brought in from the Leipzig Gewandhaus at mutually beneficial rates. The episode ends under a cloud, however, when the wife of one of them falls for an associate of Hermann's on a group visit to the Zugspitze.
Review:
The title stems of course from the twin fortunes of the newly reunited lovers and the similarly reunited Germanies, and the film is suffused with good will and optimism, marred only by the crumbling marriage of one of the workers whose wife falls for Hermann's assistant.
(Das Glücklichste Volk der Welt)
Country: GER/GB
Technical: col/bw 106m
Director: Edgar Reitz
Cast: Salome Kammer, Henry Arnold, Uwe Steimle
Synopsis:
On the night the Berlin wall comes down, Hermann runs into Clarissa after years apart and together they decide to buy a crumbling ruin not far from Schabbach, and have it renovated by idle craftsmen brought in from the Leipzig Gewandhaus at mutually beneficial rates. The episode ends under a cloud, however, when the wife of one of them falls for an associate of Hermann's on a group visit to the Zugspitze.
Review:
The title stems of course from the twin fortunes of the newly reunited lovers and the similarly reunited Germanies, and the film is suffused with good will and optimism, marred only by the crumbling marriage of one of the workers whose wife falls for Hermann's assistant.
(Das Glücklichste Volk der Welt)
Country: GER/GB
Technical: col/bw 106m
Director: Edgar Reitz
Cast: Salome Kammer, Henry Arnold, Uwe Steimle
Synopsis:
On the night the Berlin wall comes down, Hermann runs into Clarissa after years apart and together they decide to buy a crumbling ruin not far from Schabbach, and have it renovated by idle craftsmen brought in from the Leipzig Gewandhaus at mutually beneficial rates. The episode ends under a cloud, however, when the wife of one of them falls for an associate of Hermann's on a group visit to the Zugspitze.
Review:
The title stems of course from the twin fortunes of the newly reunited lovers and the similarly reunited Germanies, and the film is suffused with good will and optimism, marred only by the crumbling marriage of one of the workers whose wife falls for Hermann's assistant.