Home from Home (2013 film)

Home from Home (German: Die andere Heimat – Chronik einer Sehnsucht) is a 2013 German drama film directed by Edgar Reitz. It was screened out of competition at the 70th Venice International Film Festival. It is shot in black-and-white, but there are some colour sequences. It is a prequel to the Heimat film series and concerns the Simon family living in the fictional Hunsrück village of Schabbach from 1840–1844.

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• Home from home chronicle of a vision trailer festival 2013
• Cast
• References

Home from Home was screened at the Venice Film Festival in September 2013. The film was awarded a score of 70 on critical aggregator website Metacritic, indicating generally favorable reviews.

Cast

Jan Dieter Schneider as Jakob Simon

Antonia Bill as Henriette (Jettchen)

Maximilian Scheidt as Gustav Simon

Marita Breuer as Margarethe Simon

Rüdiger Kriese as Johann Simon

Philine Lembeck as Florinchen

Mélanie Fouché as Lena

Eva Zeidler as Großmutter

Reinhard Paulus as Unkel

Barbara Philipp as Frau Niem

Christoph Luser as Franz Olm

Rainer Kühn as Dr. Zwirner

Konstantin Buchholz as Der junge Baron

Andreas Külzer as Dorfpfarrer Wiegand

Julia Prochnow as Hebamme Sophie

Werner Herzog as Alexander von Humboldt

Jeroen Perceval as Auswanderungswerber