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A German History Lesson: Edgar Reitz's Heimat
- Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies
- Center for the Study of Film and History
- Volume 17, Number 1, February 1987
- pp. 9-16
- 10.1353/flm.1987.a402286
- Article
- Additional Information
Edgar Reitz's epic film Heimat traces the social history of German town 1919 to 1982, showing the impact of technology, the rise and fall of Nazism and the breakdown of the extended agricultural family. Dagmar Stern examines the various characters in the film's basic structure as romantically dialectical, well worth the attention of historians