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Interesting Questions, Facts and Information
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 Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information
 Heimat
Edgar Reitz. Wolfgang Petersen is famous for 'Das Boot', Douglas Sirk (born Hans Detlef Sierck) was a film director from the last century. Peter Lorre was a German actor.
| At the start of every episode (except the first one), one of the people in the series tells us what has happened last time. Who is he? | "Heimat", Part I
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Glasisch Karl. With the help of some photographs, the story as it has unfolded is being told.
It is alternately in black and white and in color. Also, the actors speak in dialect most of the time.
| The series is some kind of miniature history of Germany in the twentieth century. When does the story begin? | "Heimat", Part I
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Just after World War I. Paul Simon returns to his home village after having survived the terrible carnage of trench warfare.
| The story takes place in Schabbach. In which part of Germany is that village located? | "Heimat", Part I
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The Hunsrück. You won't find Schabbach on a map as it is a fictitious village. The Hunsrück is located just north of the French border and east of the Luxembourg border.
Paul. He descends from a hill, overlooking the village where he was born and raised.
Maria. As the story takes us through the 20th century, we see Maria Wiegand getting old. She is being played by just one actress: Marita Breuer.
| Paul's brother is Eduard, who stayed behind in Schabbach as the war raged. Why? | "Heimat", Part I
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He was too sickly. His hobby is photography.
| Next to (or maybe instead of) women, Paul's main interest is what? | "Heimat", Part I
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Radios. At one point he succeeds to make a radio with which he receives broadcasts from around Europe. Later on, he will make a living out of it as a businessman.
No. It is Apollonia, an exotic looking beauty. She eventually runs off with a French officer.
| Paul marries Maria. They get two sons, Anton and Ernst. Still, Paul feels there is so much more than this rural, not so exciting life. So he leaves his wife and two boys and goes abroad. Where is he heading to? | "Heimat", Part II
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United States of America. He just tells his folks he's going out to have a beer.
| Just before the second World War, Paul announces his return to Germany. He actually arrives in Hamburg. But will he see Maria and his sons? | "Heimat", Part II
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No. He is refused entrance to Germany, so he can not get off the boat to see his wife and children. He then returns to the United States. Besides, Anton, the oldest boy, is not that keen to see his father.
| Before Paul announced his return, Maria had started a relationship with Otto. What was his occupation? | "Heimat", Part II
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Engineer. Otto is filling the void Paul has left. He is like a father for the two boys. With Paul announcing his return, Otto has to leave.
blown up when trying to diffuse a bomb. Otto has become a member of a bomb disposal squad. He is killed in the line of duty, so to speak.
| During the war, Anton and Ernst join the army and the air force respectively. Ernst is shot down relatively close to home. He manages to work his way back home quickly. Anton, serving on the eastern front has a much more difficult task to get back, but he manages to do so. How? | "Heimat", Part II
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He walks back. He takes a detour, as we see him travelling through Turkey.
| As he returns to Schabbach, Anton comes up with a plan to build a factory. What kind of factory is it? | "Heimat", Part II
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Optics. He figures that the air in the Hunsruck is so clean that is the ideal place to build this kind of factory.
| Anton will have a wife and children, next to his company. Will Ernst walk the same path? | "Heimat", Part II
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No. Ernst never really settles down, neither in business nor in his private life.
| Maria's relationship with Otto has resulted in her having a third son, Hermann. He will go on to do great things. What occupation will he eventually have? | "Heimat", Part II
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Composer. He was born just before the war.
| Being the pride and joy of his mother, Hermann succeeds in shocking her (and her family) profoundly. How? | "Heimat", Part II
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He has a relationship with an older woman. The fifties, Klara Sisse (pet name Klärchen), works at the factory of Anton. Hermann is (sexually) attracted to her and the feeling is mutual. When this secret is found out, Klärchen is fired and ordered to break off the relationship. However, the two lovers are able to celebrate New Year's Eve in secret before they say goodbye forever. Deeply hurt, Hermann will leave the village, vowing never to return.
| Despite his vow never to return to Schabbach, we see Hermann in his hometown at the end of the series. Why is that? | "Heimat", Part II
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To bury his mother Maria. It is 1980 and Maria has died. Although she was alone in the end, everyone who has been involved with her (and is still alive) returns to be at her funeral, even her estranged husband Paul, who reveals he has never stopped loving Maria
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