
Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play The original Heimat followed the rural life of Maria Simon & her family through the changing landscape of 20th century Germany an epic journey from the end of the First World War to 1982 In Heimat 2 originally titled & Die Zweite Heimat& (The Second Homeland) we travel back to 1960 & take up the story of Maria&s son Hermann who turns his back on his small village & heads to Munich to follow his dream & study music During this era-defining decade of cultural social & political revolution Hermann finds love & friendship among the Bohemian collection of musicians filmmakers & writers that populate his new life Edgar Reitz saw this Chronicle of a Generation as a journey to &that place which we as adults find the place we choose of our own free will & which we call our second home& He achieved the seemingly impossible a second Heimat over 25 hours in length to equal the monumental achievement of his original masterpiece once again enthralling audiences around the world Actors Henry Arnold Salome Kammer Frank Röth Noemi Steuer Franziska Traub Daniel Smith Lena Lessing Martin Maria Blau Armin Fuchs Hannelore Hoger Michael Schönborn Holger Fuchs Anke Sevenich László I Kish Edith Behleit & Peter Weiss Director Edgar Reitz Certificate 15 years & over Year 1993 Screen Fullscreen 1331 Languages German Subtitles English Duration 25 hours & 13 minutes (approx)