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Introduction by Professor Marc Siberman, University of Wisconsin; Facets cine-notes collectable booklet Heimat 3: Inside an Era; Schabbach is everything featurette; Interview with director Edgar Reitz; Original trailer; Photo gallery
Full Product DetailsDisc #1 -- Heimat, Vol. 3: A Chronicle of Endings and Beginnings
1. Hermann & Clarissa [19:21]
2. Hermann in Schabbach [10:08]
3. GDR Workers Come West [19:06]
4. The Artist's Life [19:51]
5. Building a Foundation [31:50]
6. End Credits [1:11]
1. House Completion Party [36:45]
2. Changing Times [26:46]
3. New Ventures [30:41]
4. End Credits [1:31]
Disc #2 -- Heimat, Vol. 3: A Chronicle of Endings and Beginnings
1. Ernst & the Russians [25:02]
2. Seeds of Destruction [20:03]
3. Time of Hope [32:40]
4. Families Divided [15:24]
5. Family Tragedy [25:00]
6. End Credits [1:19]
1. Love isn't Still Love [2:16]
2. Family Feuds [:45]
3. Cosmic Moments [:25]
4. Death of Anton [:29]
5. Family Business [17:45]
6. End Credits [20:35]
Disc #3 -- Heimat, Vol. 3: A Chronicle of Endings and Beginnings
1. The Heirs [29:55]
2. Pride Goes Before a Fall [17:37]
3. Ernst's Legacy [23:30]
4. Greed [13:27]
5. Matko Flies [14:47]
6. End Credits [1:17]
1. Eclipse in Munich [:58]
2. Imprisonment & Escape [2:16]
3. Schabbach Ghosts [2:03]
4. Loss Limitation [24:07]
5. Millenium Fireworks [11:49]
6. End Credits [14:09]
Director Edgar Reitz concludes his epic-length, tripartite chronicle of the Simon clan with the 11-hour (six episode) Heimat 3: A Chronicle of Endings and Beginnings. The omega and alpha of the title refer to the fall of the Iron Curtain in Eastern Europe, circa 1989 (an event that christens the opening of the film) and the outset of the new millennium (which marks the conclusion). In between, Reitz plunges into the world of the Simons - residents of the village of Schabbach in the Hunsrück region of Germany - and investigates the myriad of ways in which events from their lives intersect with broader German sociopolitical shifts over the course of the 1990s. This installment begins with the youngest Simon son, Hermann, and his lover, Clarissa, renovating a centuries-old house on a cliff above the Rhine, not far from Lorelei. As time unfurls, Reitz cross-cuts between the experiences of the couple, their parents, their children, and the workmen assisting with the home renovation, and gradually reveals how a sense of national pride and unity at the beginning of the 1990s (coincident with German reunification) ultimately yielded to disillusionment, disappointment, and crushing awareness of mortality from individual to individual as the decade ended. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide All Movie Guide