Home from Home: Chronicle of a Vision (2013)

Jakob longs for a new life for himself and his troubled family in Brazil.

Director:

Edgar Reitz

Writers:

Edgar Reitz (screenplay), Gert Heidenreich (screenplay)

Stars:

Jan Dieter Schneider, Antonia Bill, Maximilian Scheidt

8 wins & 8 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Jan Dieter Schneider	...	Jakob Simon
Antonia Bill	...	Jettchen Niem
Maximilian Scheidt	...	Gustav Simon
Marita Breuer	...	Margarethe Simon
Rüdiger Kriese	...	Johann Simon
Philine Lembeck	...	Florinchen
Mélanie Fouché	...	Lena Zeitz
Eva Zeidler	...	Großmutter
Reinhard Paulus	...	Unkel
Barbara Philipp	...	Frau Niem
Christoph Luser	...	Franz Olm
Rainer Kühn	...	Dr. Zwirner
Andreas Külzer	...	Dorfpfarrer Wiegand
Julia Prochnow	...	Hebamme Sophie Gent
Martin Haberscheidt	...	Fürchtegott Niem

Storyline

Jakob longs for a new life for himself and his troubled family in Brazil.

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Plot Keywords:

emigration | brazil | discontent | autodidact | letter | 

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Genres:

Drama | History

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Did You Know?

Trivia

The strange brass instrument played by Florine at the Smearcase Fair is an ophicleide.

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Connections

Follows Heimat 3: A Chronicle of Endings and Beginnings (2004)

User Reviews

Have you ever seen a tiny town in the Hunsruck in 1843?

How many unforgettable images can Edgar Reitz create? Country girls given coins, stare dumbly into their palms. A girl with a malformed leg is ostracized. Country people protest "Liberté!" to returned Prussian authorities. A stone cutter becomes mute on his way to oblivion, but first he cuts an agate slice that contains the world. Where do Reitz, and Casting Director An Dorthe Braker (Downfall, Bader-Meinhof Complex), find actors who seem to step out of a time machine? Where does Reitz get the poignancy of turns of fate changing lives utterly in a world where everything is grown, pounded, turned, and wrested from the earth, if not by yourself and your family, by others who you've known all your life? Under the comet of 1843, hawkers sell passage to paradise to people who never once left the Hunsruck. The damson berries are harvested, and youths become intoxicated on music and dancing. A Prussian lackey reads a hateful decree to an empty street. A lone rider brings more emigration papers. Neighbors and families walk beside their wagons, to Rotterdam and beyond on a journey they cannot comprehend except that there is no return. In Schabbach, the remaining Simons endure, and repair and improve the family smithy. A letter arrives from Brazil after 13 months, and is read to the astonished gathering. We are in Schabbach to witness all of this.

Details

Official Sites:

Concorde Filmverleih [Germany] Official Facebook

Country:

Germany France

Language:

German

Release Date:

11 September 2015 (USA)

Also Known As:

Home from Home: Chronicle of a Vision

Filming Locations:

Gehlweiler, Hunsrück, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Box Office

Budget:

EUR8,000,000 (estimated)

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$1,601,058

Company Credits

Production Co:

Edgar Reitz Film (ERF), Les Films du Losange, ARD Degeto Film

Technical Specs

Runtime:

231 min

Color:

Color Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

2.39 : 1