Home (1938)

Movie
Original title	homeland
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1938
length	98 minutes
Age rating	FSK 6
Rod
Director	Carl Froelich
script	Harald Braun ; Hans Brennert and Otto Ernst Hesse (adaptation of the original)
production	Carl Froelich for Ufa
music	Theo Mackeben
camera	Franz Weihmayr
cut	Gustav Lohse
occupation
Zarah Leander : Magda von Schwartze Heinrich George : Leopold von Schwartze Ruth Hellberg : Marie Lina Carstens : Fränze von Klebs Paul Hörbiger : Franz Heffterdingk Georg Alexander : Ludwig Prince of Ilmingen Leo Slezak : Rohrmoser Hans Nielsen : Max von Wendlowsky Franz Schafheitlin : bank director of Keller Charlott Daudert : Keller's girlfriend Hugo Froelich : Servant Christian Babsi Schultz-Reckewell : Poldi Leopold von Ledebur : Your Excellency Erich Ziegel : Pastor of the residential town

Heimat is a German feature film by Carl Froelich from 1938 based on the play of the same name by Hermann Sudermann .

action

After a long absence, the beautiful daughter of a Colonel a. D. returned to her hometown as an internationally celebrated singer. She is reconciled with her father, whom she left in an argument. However, because she refuses to marry the fraudulent bank manager von Keller, who left her with a child, the restored relationship with her father threatens to break again. Von Keller, who is in danger of being arrested for illegal banking transactions, shoots himself, and nothing stands in the way of the final reconciliation between father and daughter.

Awards

The film was awarded the title “State-politically and artistically valuable”, the directing award of the Biennale di Venezia (1938) and the national film award (1939). Zarah Leander , who usually didn't think much of her films, meant a lot to home .

Trivia

Zarah Leander sings the alto aria "Buß und Reu '" from the St. Matthew Passion BWV 244 in this film.

In the fifth film in the Heimat series from 1982, the film from 1938 is shown in the cinema.

Reviews

“A neat social drama, set in Wilhelmine Germany, which is based entirely on stirring effects. Heinrich George's acting and Zarah Leander's star appeal alone have made the film a nostalgic cinema attraction. "

- Lexicon of international film

"(...); the film is to be understood as a contempt for the bourgeoisie of the Weimar period and praise for the new Nazi family. Zarah Leander sings her evergreen 'A woman is only beautiful through love'. Blood and soil with a star cast (...). Rating: 1½ out of 4 possible stars (moderate). "

- Adolf Heinzlmeier and Berndt Schulz - Lexicon films on television

See also

• List of German feature films premiered in the German Reich during the Nazi era

literature

• Hermann Sudermann : Home. Play in 4 acts . With an afterword by Gerhard Muschwitz . Reclam, Stuttgart 1989, 102 pages, ISBN 3-15-009978-1

Web links

• Home in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Home at filmportal.de (with photo gallery)
• Heimat ( memento from September 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) at murnau-stiftung.de (detailed film data )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cornelia Zumkeller: Zarah Leander. Your films - your life , Heyne, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-453-02623-3 , pp. 97f
2. ↑ home. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 3, 2016 .  
3. ^ Adolf Heinzlmeier, Berndt Schulz: Lexicon "Films on Television" (extended new edition). Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-89136-392-3 , p. 348