Heimat on AllMovie

Sporting excellent cinematography and a sense of both comedy and poetry, this is an incredible epic. Nearly sixteen hours in length, it is the tale of a small German village from 1919 through 1982--running the gamut from soap opera to tragedy, from triumph to failure. Sort of a microcosm of society in one small village. The length tends to wear one down, however, and the last couple of hours somehow just don't seem quite as interesting as the first, but an interesting perspective of life through the generations.