DIE ANDERE HEIMAT - CHRONIK EINER SEHNSUCHT

Edgar Reitz has not made any feature films for over 30 years - his fictional works of the last few decades, which all revolve around the inhabitants of the Hunsrück village of Schabbach, were made for television, as series. It is not without a certain irony that the old master mastermind of Young German Cinema is creating his fourth Schabbach epic for the cinema at a time when the poor knights of the zeitgeist are tirelessly singing the praises of the TV series: the story of a fraternal quarrel against the backdrop of young German rebellion and mass emigration to America. The story of Jakob and Gustav and the women they love is told in a wonderful black and white with color inlays; with a sometimes subtle, sometimes barbarically brilliant sense of storytelling in contractions, broadly played out scenes and insanely wide ellipses; a pleasure both in rapture, in getting lost in visions and in sinking into the details of this agrarian culture, the mud, the cracks in the wood. In this way, the film makes it visible and tangible that the young German revolution is perhaps a permanent one after all. A dream, what else.