Heimat 3 A Chronicle of Endings and Beginnings: Part 3 The Russians Are Coming (2004)
(Die Russen Kommen)
Country: GER/GB
Technical: col/bw 125m
Director: Edgar Reitz
Cast: Salome Kammer, Henry Arnold, Christian Leonard, Larissa Iwlewa
Synopsis:
Ernst Simon returns from the USSR after two years' imprisonment with dozens of expatriate Germans, descendants of WW2 POWs; Clarissa and Hermann notice paranormal phenomena in their house, and Hermann's daughter visits with her two student lovers; Anton Simon's son Christian breaks away from the parent company at the same time as his wife belatedly conceives their first child, to whom Anton publicly bequeathes the bulk of his wealth.
Review:
The first telltale omens of trouble ahead are discernible here, and Ernst is the brother shown to be most in tune with the humanist implications of the new unification. Hermann and Clarissa are pretty much sidelined, bar some intimations of tinnitus and an uncanny encounter with an asset stripper who spills his soul and later pretends it was all lies. Instead we get to know Christian better, childlike, deluded, acquisitive, and doomed.
(Die Russen Kommen)
Country: GER/GB
Technical: col/bw 125m
Director: Edgar Reitz
Cast: Salome Kammer, Henry Arnold, Christian Leonard, Larissa Iwlewa
Synopsis:
Ernst Simon returns from the USSR after two years' imprisonment with dozens of expatriate Germans, descendants of WW2 POWs; Clarissa and Hermann notice paranormal phenomena in their house, and Hermann's daughter visits with her two student lovers; Anton Simon's son Christian breaks away from the parent company at the same time as his wife belatedly conceives their first child, to whom Anton publicly bequeathes the bulk of his wealth.
Review:
The first telltale omens of trouble ahead are discernible here, and Ernst is the brother shown to be most in tune with the humanist implications of the new unification. Hermann and Clarissa are pretty much sidelined, bar some intimations of tinnitus and an uncanny encounter with an asset stripper who spills his soul and later pretends it was all lies. Instead we get to know Christian better, childlike, deluded, acquisitive, and doomed.
(Die Russen Kommen)
Country: GER/GB
Technical: col/bw 125m
Director: Edgar Reitz
Cast: Salome Kammer, Henry Arnold, Christian Leonard, Larissa Iwlewa
Synopsis:
Ernst Simon returns from the USSR after two years' imprisonment with dozens of expatriate Germans, descendants of WW2 POWs; Clarissa and Hermann notice paranormal phenomena in their house, and Hermann's daughter visits with her two student lovers; Anton Simon's son Christian breaks away from the parent company at the same time as his wife belatedly conceives their first child, to whom Anton publicly bequeathes the bulk of his wealth.
Review:
The first telltale omens of trouble ahead are discernible here, and Ernst is the brother shown to be most in tune with the humanist implications of the new unification. Hermann and Clarissa are pretty much sidelined, bar some intimations of tinnitus and an uncanny encounter with an asset stripper who spills his soul and later pretends it was all lies. Instead we get to know Christian better, childlike, deluded, acquisitive, and doomed.