Heimat - Season 1 Episode 3 The Best Christmas Ever (1935)
From Berlin the sickly Eduard brings his wife Lucie home to Schabbach. Lucie is an extremely ambitious woman and wants her husband to rise politically. She constantly henpecks poor Eduard to figure out a way to become more and more successful. Eduard's real love, however, is his photography. He is always taking pictures of all kinds of village events and village people. But Lucie pushes him to become a prominent local person in the Nazi Party.
Lucie gets Eduard to borrow money from a Jewish banker (despite the hatred of Hitler for the Jews) with which she builds her "dream" house which is the most prominent house in the village. Eduard soon becomes mayor and Lucie revels in her role as the village's first lady, constantly entertaining Nazi party officials so that Eduard will be able to rise even higher in the fascist power hierarchy. Christmas Time, 1935 Lucie is sitting pretty and considers it the best Christmas ever.
1935 -- the Nuremberg Laws strip Jewish people of their basic civil rights. The Jews are becoming legally, socially and politically separated from the non-Jewish Germans. Inter-faith marriage, or even sexual relations, with Jews is strictly forbidden.
Year: 1984
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Studio: Das Erste
Director: Edgar Reitz
Cast: Kurt Wagner, Marita Breuer, Rüdiger Weigang, Gertrud Bredel, Karin Rasenack, Willi Burger
Crew: Gernot Roll (Cinematography), Nikos Mamangakis (Music), Heidi Handorf (Editor), Joachim von Mengershausen (Producer), Hans Kwiet (Producer)
First Air Date: Sep 16, 1984
Last Air date: Nov 04, 1984
Season: 1 Season
Episode: 11 Episode
Runtime: 90 minutes
IMDb: 7.80/10 by 27.00 users
Popularity: 7.989
Language: German
Keyword : germany, small town, world war ii, narration, forbidden love, photography, change, disappearance, historical, family, generational, yearning
Season
Season 1
Episode
The Call of Far-Away Places (1919-1928)
The Center of the World (1928-1933)
The Best Christmas Ever (1935)
The Highway (1938)
Up and Away and Back (1938-1939)
The Home Front (1943)
Soldiers and Love (1944)
The American (1944-1947)
Little Hermann (1955-1956)
The Proud Years (1967-1969)
The Feast of the Living and the Dead (1982)
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