The Second Heimat (1992)
(Die Zweite Heimat - Chronik einer Jugend)
Country: GER/GB/SP/SV/FR/NOR/FIN/OST/DK/AUS
Technical: bw/col 1532m
Director: Edgar Reitz
Cast: Henry Arnold, Salome Kammer, Noemi Steuer
Synopsis:
Hermann makes his way to the Conservatory in Munich, where he quickly becomes one of the avant-garde artistic set of the early sixties, and meets the love of his life, Clarissa.
Review:
Reitz's follow-up to his epic family saga is instead a study in depth of a single set of individuals in one time and place, all of whose stories interlock in sometimes quite subtle, tangential ways, each episode being dedicated to one of them. As before it is a masterpiece of composition, cinematography and editing, besides being an incredibly detailed portrait of an era, with contemporary events impacting in their own way on the characters. More than before, and akin to the third Heimat, it is a sequence of individual full-length films. Quality of execution, if not of conception, is admirably sustained throughout (the last episode raises more questions than it answers).
(Die Zweite Heimat - Chronik einer Jugend)
Country: GER/GB/SP/SV/FR/NOR/FIN/OST/DK/AUS
Technical: bw/col 1532m
Director: Edgar Reitz
Cast: Henry Arnold, Salome Kammer, Noemi Steuer
Synopsis:
Hermann makes his way to the Conservatory in Munich, where he quickly becomes one of the avant-garde artistic set of the early sixties, and meets the love of his life, Clarissa.
Review:
Reitz's follow-up to his epic family saga is instead a study in depth of a single set of individuals in one time and place, all of whose stories interlock in sometimes quite subtle, tangential ways, each episode being dedicated to one of them. As before it is a masterpiece of composition, cinematography and editing, besides being an incredibly detailed portrait of an era, with contemporary events impacting in their own way on the characters. More than before, and akin to the third Heimat, it is a sequence of individual full-length films. Quality of execution, if not of conception, is admirably sustained throughout (the last episode raises more questions than it answers).
(Die Zweite Heimat - Chronik einer Jugend)
Country: GER/GB/SP/SV/FR/NOR/FIN/OST/DK/AUS
Technical: bw/col 1532m
Director: Edgar Reitz
Cast: Henry Arnold, Salome Kammer, Noemi Steuer
Synopsis:
Hermann makes his way to the Conservatory in Munich, where he quickly becomes one of the avant-garde artistic set of the early sixties, and meets the love of his life, Clarissa.
Review:
Reitz's follow-up to his epic family saga is instead a study in depth of a single set of individuals in one time and place, all of whose stories interlock in sometimes quite subtle, tangential ways, each episode being dedicated to one of them. As before it is a masterpiece of composition, cinematography and editing, besides being an incredibly detailed portrait of an era, with contemporary events impacting in their own way on the characters. More than before, and akin to the third Heimat, it is a sequence of individual full-length films. Quality of execution, if not of conception, is admirably sustained throughout (the last episode raises more questions than it answers).