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HEIMAT 3 is the third cycle of EDGAR REITZ’S monumental HEIMAT series, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival last year. The third HEIMAT completes the trilogy and brings together particularly the settings of HEIMAT 1. It follows the new generation of the Simon family, in a period spanning from 1989 to 2000. Germany changed dramatically in this period, and Reitz cleverly reflects the historical events through the characters’ lives. After the screening in Venice, he received a standing ovation and since then HEIMAT 3 has very successfully opened in Germany. |
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HEIMAT 3 begins on November 9, 1989. On the evening the Wall came down, two musicians, the conductor/composer Hermann Simon and the singer Clarissa Lichtblau, once lovers, meet in a West Berlin hotel. Infected by the euphoria of the Germans they set off for the Hunsrück. They are attracted by a romantic timber-framed house high above the Rhine valley and decide that henceforth it will be the centre of their restless lives. Hermann’s family, young building labourers from East Germany and friends, in the months after the fall of Communism, discover a world of new opportunities and try to carry out their plans. There are also newly settled Russian Germans looking for a better life in the West. The house acts as the crossroads for the stories. From here the young people start off in life and it is here that everyone returns to greet the new Millennium. |
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