Heimat – Eine deutsche Chronik (Heimat – A German Chronicle)

With actors Marliese Assmann and Eva Maria Bayerwaltes
available on DVD with English subtitles in the US

The series (11 episodes) tells the story of the village Schabbach, on the Hunsrueck in Germany through the years 1919-1982. Central person is Maria, who we see growing from a 17 year old girl to an old woman, and her family. The family, like the rest of the German people live through the crises after WW-I, the rise and fall of Nazism and WW-II, and the rebuilding and the following prosperity of the village (as a symbol for the whole country) after WWII.

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