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Family Germany Drama Foreign films Germany Germans Brazil 19th century Drama Germany History 20th century Drama Germany Social life and customs 19th century Drama Immigrants 19th century Drama Motion pictures, German Prussia (Germany) Social life and customs 19th century Drama Villages Germany 19th century Drama World War, 1939-1945 Germany DramaSummary: Set in a dreary, unforgiving mid-nineteenth century German village in Hunsruck, it captures the plight of hundreds of thousands of Europeans who immigrated to faraway South America to escape the famine, poverty and despotism that ruled at home. Edgar Reitz's film is a heart-wrenching drama and love story set against the backdrop of this forgotten tragedy. Jakob, our protagonist, tries to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HOMSummary: A massive chronicle of life in Germany, from 1919 to 1982, as reflected in the fluctuating fortunes of the members of one family, initially peasant-farmers, in the fictitious village of Schachbach in the Rhineland. An extraordinary succession of mostly ordinary events and characters--history seen from ground level--vividly acted by a huge cast of both professional and nonprofessional actors.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Facets Video 2005