Heimat
1885. For the opera festival it has organized, the small town of Imlingen has invited a famous singer, Maddalena Dall'Orto, who will not only sing at the local opera but will also perform the part of Bach's St. Matthew's Passion a...
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"When we consider many of the novel adaptations made at Ufa in the 1930s when, actually, the Nazi propaganda saw its heyday, it is hard to capture the traces of their literary sources. Considerable exaggeration in fear of any immorality explicitly displayed resulted in altered, distorted content. And that travesty seems to be very noticeable in Carl Froehlich's movie the title of which, HEIMAT (Homeland), is one of these titles that could be labeled: misleading and meaningful alike. From the very start, with the credits, we are led to the atmosphere of the times and Zarah Leander, the clo..."
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The production in 1938 was timed for the commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the passing of popular writer Hermann Sudermann.
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1885. For the opera festival it has organized, the small town of Imlingen has invited a famous singer, Maddalena Dall'Orto, who will not only sing at the local opera but will also perform the part of Bach's St. Matthew's Passion a...