Heimat 3 A Chronicle of Endings and Beginnings: Part 6 Farewell to Schabbach (2004)
(Abschied von Schabbach)
Country: GER/GB
Technical: col 114m
Director: Edgar Reitz
Cast: Salome Kammer, Henry Arnold, Uwe Steimle, Nicola Schössler
Synopsis:
As the 1999 solar eclipse passes over Munich, Gunnar arrives to serve a six-month prison sentence for drink driving. While inside he invests his stock market gains in an ambitious project to hold a millennium celebration/reunion at Hermann and Clarissa's house overlooking the Rhine. Hartmut reaches rock bottom financially but is reunited with his wife. Clarissa performs a defiantly optimistic song at the party, but Gunnar himself does not make it.
Review:
The final part of Reitz's epic journey concludes, fittingly enough, with the new millennium; indeed the series has throughout been marked by a most telling parallelling of individual, local stories and world events. The sheer scale of the enterprise bears down on one during the course of this momentous conclusion, which achieves a gloriously apt ambivalence with the culminating festivities and Gunnar's absence from them, together with Hermann's own encounters with ghosts from the past.
(Abschied von Schabbach)
Country: GER/GB
Technical: col 114m
Director: Edgar Reitz
Cast: Salome Kammer, Henry Arnold, Uwe Steimle, Nicola Schössler
Synopsis:
As the 1999 solar eclipse passes over Munich, Gunnar arrives to serve a six-month prison sentence for drink driving. While inside he invests his stock market gains in an ambitious project to hold a millennium celebration/reunion at Hermann and Clarissa's house overlooking the Rhine. Hartmut reaches rock bottom financially but is reunited with his wife. Clarissa performs a defiantly optimistic song at the party, but Gunnar himself does not make it.
Review:
The final part of Reitz's epic journey concludes, fittingly enough, with the new millennium; indeed the series has throughout been marked by a most telling parallelling of individual, local stories and world events. The sheer scale of the enterprise bears down on one during the course of this momentous conclusion, which achieves a gloriously apt ambivalence with the culminating festivities and Gunnar's absence from them, together with Hermann's own encounters with ghosts from the past.
(Abschied von Schabbach)
Country: GER/GB
Technical: col 114m
Director: Edgar Reitz
Cast: Salome Kammer, Henry Arnold, Uwe Steimle, Nicola Schössler
Synopsis:
As the 1999 solar eclipse passes over Munich, Gunnar arrives to serve a six-month prison sentence for drink driving. While inside he invests his stock market gains in an ambitious project to hold a millennium celebration/reunion at Hermann and Clarissa's house overlooking the Rhine. Hartmut reaches rock bottom financially but is reunited with his wife. Clarissa performs a defiantly optimistic song at the party, but Gunnar himself does not make it.
Review:
The final part of Reitz's epic journey concludes, fittingly enough, with the new millennium; indeed the series has throughout been marked by a most telling parallelling of individual, local stories and world events. The sheer scale of the enterprise bears down on one during the course of this momentous conclusion, which achieves a gloriously apt ambivalence with the culminating festivities and Gunnar's absence from them, together with Hermann's own encounters with ghosts from the past.