Heim ins Reich (film)
Movie | |
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German title | back home |
Original title | Home to the Reich - Wéi Lëtzebuerg should start with prices |
Country of production | Luxembourg , Belgium |
original language | Luxembourgish |
Publishing year | 2004 |
length | 120 minutes |
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Director | Claude Lahr |
script | Claude Lahr |
production | Nowhere Land , Willy Perelsztejn , Center National de l'Audiovisuel , Les Films de la Mémoire |
music | Lingo |
camera | Stéphane Patti |
occupation | |
Home to the Reich - Wéi Lëtzebuerg sollt preisesch start is a documentary film about the period from 1940 to 1944, when the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg was occupied by Germany .
action
The independence celebrations of 1939 and the return of Grand Duchess Charlotte from exile form the framework .
Using testimonies from over 20 contemporary witnesses, old film documents, photos and reenacted scenes, the film describes how the National Socialists wanted to convince the Luxembourgers during the German occupation , initially through propaganda and later with terrorist methods, that Luxembourg would "voluntarily" integrate into the German Reich should and what consequences this had for the population.
The film deals with individual groups of fate, such as those of the Luxembourgers who actively organized in the resistance, Luxembourg Jews (persecution, deportation ), Luxembourg recruits in the German Wehrmacht , resettled families, but also Luxembourg collaborators . In this context, the fates of the numerous Italian immigrants who were deported to a concentration camp because of their resistance against the German occupiers are ignored.
Others
- The film was an extraordinary success for a Luxembourg film: 27,000 people saw the film in the cinema; it was number 1 on the cinema charts for several weeks.
- The subtitle of the French version is "L'échec d'une annexion" (The failure of an annexation).
- The full version of the film is also available on DVD.
Prices
- Festival international du Film d'Art de l'Unesco in Paris : Grand Prix de la Recherche Historique
- Lëtzebuerger Filmpräis 2005: Best Film
- Lëtzebuerger Filmpräis 2005: Audience Award