Heimat
“A Chronicle of Germany”
Spanning 1919 to 1982, in the fictional village of Schabbach, live Maria Simon and her family, whose lives and community are changed by historical events around them.
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Heimat – Eine deutsche Chronik (1980-2006) Trailer, deutsch
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Seasons
1.The Call of Far-Away Places (1919-1928)
8.016-09-1984119m1918 (November) -- World War I ends. 1919 -- the Weimar Republic is set up at Weimar, Germany. Katharina and Mathias Simon live in the small village of Schabbach in the Hunsrick...
2.The Center of the World (1928-1933)
7.019-09-198490m1929 -- the Great Depression begins further impoverishing the less fortunate Germans. This puts great pressure on the ill-equipped Weimar democracy. 1932 -- unemployment is n...
3.The Best Christmas Ever (1935)
8.023-09-198458mFrom Berlin the sickly Eduard brings his wife Lucie home to Schabbach. Lucie is an extremely ambitious woman and wants her husband to rise politically. She constantly henpecks po...
4.The Highway (1938)
7.026-09-198458m1938 -- to escape the politically worsening situation in Germany, the famous German movie star Marlene Dietrich emigrates to the United States. A young Swedish girl named Zarah L...
5.Up and Away and Back (1938-1939)
0.008-10-198459m1938 (June) -- German heavy-weight boxer Max Schmeling loses badly in a rematch with American boxer Joe Louis. A bombshell is dropped on Maria and Otto. Paul Simon of Simon Ele...
6.The Home Front (1943)
8.015-10-198459m1943 -- the last large-scale German offensive assault on the eastern front begins at Kursk. The military situation really begins to deteriorate for the Germans in the Soviet Uni...
7.Soldiers and Love (1944)
9.022-10-198459m1944 (June 6) -- the allied forces land on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day. 1944 (July 20) -- would-be assassins plant a bomb which goes off near Hitler, but Hitler escapes...
8.The American (1944-1947)
8.031-10-1984102m1945 (May 8) -- Germany surrenders. Lucie sees the arrival of the Americans in Schabbach as just another opportunity for her to help Eduard move up in terms of economic and pol...
9.Little Hermann (1955-1956)
9.504-11-1984138m1955 -- West Germany joins NATO, while East Germany joins the Warsaw Pact. Maria absolutely dotes on her son Hermann. She has great plans for him, wanting him to become very ed...
10.The Proud Years (1967-1969)
8.021-10-198482m1968 -- there are student demonstrations and unrest in West Germany as in the rest of the West. 1969 -- Chancellor Willy Brantd opens negotiations with East Germany. He is al...
11.The Feast of the Living and the Dead (1982)
8.024-10-1984100m1982-1998 -- reign of Helmut Kohl as Chancellor of Germany. He saw the destruction of the Berlin Wall (November 9, 1989) and the formal unification of West and East Germany (Oct...
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