在这部故乡剧情片中,Heimat 号称是 People’s history of Germany，现代德国的史诗，Edgar Reitz自编自导。第一部 Heimat (A German Chronicle) 1984年播出，11集，全长16小时；第二部 Heimat (The Second Heimat: Chronicle of a Generation) 1994年播出13集，全长 26小时。第三部 Heimat (A Chronicle of The Endings and Beginnings) 2004 年播出，6集全长约700分钟。
The series (11 episodes) tells the story of the village Schabbach, on the Hunsrueck in Germany through the years 1919-1982. Central person is Maria, who we see growing from a 17 year old girl to an old woman, and her family. The family, like the rest of the German people live through the crises after WW-I, the rise and fall of Nazism and WW-II, and the rebuilding and the following prosperity of the village (as a symbol for the whole country) after WW II.
译文 《故乡》导演埃德加•莱茨专访。开看那厚重的编年体德国版《根》。Heimat 三部曲。编年体。故乡2（1－8）。Youtube上有HEIMAT。观影日记。
