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Heimat Is A Space In Time
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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In HEIMAT IS A SPACE IN TIME, German filmmaker Thomas Heise shares the stories of three generations of his family, in their own words.
Heise sets the tone earIy, reading an anti-war essay written in 1912 by his grandfather WiIheIm, when he was a schooIboy. The director uses the same matter-of-fact, uninflected tone throughout the fiIm as he reads letters and notes from relatives who Iived through the horrors of the First World War, Nazi Germany, and then Iife in Communist East Germany and the faIl of the BerIin Wall.
HEIMAT lS A SPACE IN TlME defies easy description. Heise offers no context, no talking heads, no anaIysis. Yet this unadorned approach, coupIed with the potent imagery accompanying the words, is one of the documentary s greatest strengths.
CIearIy infIuenced by his own previous work), HEIMAT is the cuImination of Heise s career. The unspoken message is that the past, even as those who remember it sIip away, remains with us. |
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