Heimat: A Chronicle of Germany

Heimat is the story of Maria Simon's family (born in 1900 and thus always as old as the century) set in the fictional Hunsruck village of Schabbach in the period from 1919 to 1982. Heimat is a German chronicle. The film tells of the path to fascism, the Nazi era, reconstruction and the economic miracle with its late consequences. It is a film about love and death, about remembering and forgetting. Heimat is the story of those who always remain losers and of the others who - like the Katz or Lucie - always fall on their feet.