World War II

HOME IS A TOUGH PLACE TO BE

HOMAS HEISE, one of Germany’s edgiest documentarians, built his career chronicling the failures of the now-defunct East German regime. His latest film, the nearly four-hour, broadens this scope to include 100 years of tumultuous German history, framed by tracing three generations of his own family.

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