Heimat 3 A Chronicle of Endings and Beginnings: Part 2 World Champions (2004)
(Die Weltmeister)
Country: GER/GB
Technical: col 100m
Director: Edgar Reitz
Cast: Salome Kammer, Henry Arnold, Uwe Steimle, Michael Kausch, Heiko Senst
Synopsis:
Amid the excitement surrounding the 1990 World Cup final, Gunnar goes to Berlin and embarks upon an entrepreneurial scheme selling fragments of Berlin Wall to Warner Bros, while Ernst flies East with Tobi to snaffle up Soviet art treasures in the crumbling USSR. Tobi, however, gets no further than laying a ghost from his military service and turns back; Gunnar is momentarily fêted due to the fact that he bears the same name, and shirt, as the German striker.
Review:
The series marks time somewhat with this episode; there is optimism and buoyancy but undoubtedly an ominous note as if it will not last. Hermann gets his commission for the Reunification Symphony too, but otherwise the main thread is put on hold. The abiding image is of Lenin's statue, brought back from East Germany by Tobi to Ernst's farm, no doubt to form part of some other collector's hoard, putting the seal on the artistic theme running through the film with both Gunnar and Ernst.
(Die Weltmeister)
Country: GER/GB
Technical: col 100m
Director: Edgar Reitz
Cast: Salome Kammer, Henry Arnold, Uwe Steimle, Michael Kausch, Heiko Senst
Synopsis:
Amid the excitement surrounding the 1990 World Cup final, Gunnar goes to Berlin and embarks upon an entrepreneurial scheme selling fragments of Berlin Wall to Warner Bros, while Ernst flies East with Tobi to snaffle up Soviet art treasures in the crumbling USSR. Tobi, however, gets no further than laying a ghost from his military service and turns back; Gunnar is momentarily fêted due to the fact that he bears the same name, and shirt, as the German striker.
Review:
The series marks time somewhat with this episode; there is optimism and buoyancy but undoubtedly an ominous note as if it will not last. Hermann gets his commission for the Reunification Symphony too, but otherwise the main thread is put on hold. The abiding image is of Lenin's statue, brought back from East Germany by Tobi to Ernst's farm, no doubt to form part of some other collector's hoard, putting the seal on the artistic theme running through the film with both Gunnar and Ernst.
(Die Weltmeister)
Country: GER/GB
Technical: col 100m
Director: Edgar Reitz
Cast: Salome Kammer, Henry Arnold, Uwe Steimle, Michael Kausch, Heiko Senst
Synopsis:
Amid the excitement surrounding the 1990 World Cup final, Gunnar goes to Berlin and embarks upon an entrepreneurial scheme selling fragments of Berlin Wall to Warner Bros, while Ernst flies East with Tobi to snaffle up Soviet art treasures in the crumbling USSR. Tobi, however, gets no further than laying a ghost from his military service and turns back; Gunnar is momentarily fêted due to the fact that he bears the same name, and shirt, as the German striker.
Review:
The series marks time somewhat with this episode; there is optimism and buoyancy but undoubtedly an ominous note as if it will not last. Hermann gets his commission for the Reunification Symphony too, but otherwise the main thread is put on hold. The abiding image is of Lenin's statue, brought back from East Germany by Tobi to Ernst's farm, no doubt to form part of some other collector's hoard, putting the seal on the artistic theme running through the film with both Gunnar and Ernst.