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6033. LET'S LEARN GERMAN:
ALLES GUTE. Course.
6034. HEIMAT. (1984)
6035. HEIMAT. (1984)
6036. HEIMAT. (1984)
(German with
English subtitles.
SUGARBABY. (1985)
Well, PBS
has an import that was Germany's national
pastime a few years back.
It's Heimat, filmmaker Edgar Reitz's
low-key epic chronicling one fictional German
family from 1919 to 1982. When it
was telecast in West Germany in 1984 its
reception was Roots-like, but don't expect
Heimatmania here: it's subtitled, awfully
long (nearly 16 hours) and determinedly
arty (and much of it is in black-and-white).
What's more, this week's two-hour open-
ing episode is pretty slow going.
That said, it should also be stated that,
once Part 1 is behind you, this miniseries
begins to take hold. Heimat ("homeland"
in German) follows ordinary people, but it
follows them through an extraordinary
period in German history. It is low-key
(matter of fact would be more like it:
characters simply accommodate whatever
comes their way), but while they accom-
modate the wireless and the automobile
this week, next week they learn to live
with national socialism.
6037. Die Kinder : 3/28/91
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6040. The Struggles for Poland
Debut 7/14/88
PART I: ONCE UPON A TIME
Debut: A nine-part history of 20th-century Poland
blends archival footage and interviews to tell
what narrator Roger Mudd calls "a story of hope
against all odds." That clearly reveals the
drama and conflicts of Communist rule within the
countries of the Soviet bloc. The opener chroni-
cles the years 1900 to 1933, when a new Polish
state emerged from World War I.
In 1900, the name of Poland did not appear on
the map of Europe, having been eliminated over
a century earlier by the partition of its territory
among the Russian, Prussian and Austrian em-
pires. The Slavic nation, which had once "en-
joyed 800 years of uninterrupted independence,"
resided only in the minds of its people.
At the outbreak of WWII, nationalist Joseph Pi-
sudski (1867-1935) led a small volunteer army
against Russia, but some two million other Poles
joined the armies of the empires that ruled the
areas in which they lived. As Poles fought Poles,
the land became "a killing ground, drenched with
blood, swarming with scum and refugees." At
war's end, Poland was guaranteed sovereignty
by the Allied victors, but more blood flowed as
Eastern Europe—and Poles themselves—battled
over the form the country would take. By 1933 its
shape at last was defined, and a Poland "broken
and chaotic" was reborn. (60 min.)
6041. STRUGGLES FOR POLAND: (1988)
(Concluded)
6042. NIGHTS & DAYS: Debut: 1/4/88
(Polish with English subtitles)
1863 to 1917 - 12 parts.
6043. NIGHTS & DAYS: (1988)
(In Polish - concluded)
KOPERNIK: (Copernicus) Debut: 3/23/88
Three-part Polish series about the
astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus.
(Polish with English subtitles).
6044. GREAT LOVES OF BALZAC.
7-Part Polish series about French
novelist Honore de Balzac. Polish
with English subtitles. Debut 3/11/88
290. NIKOLA TESLA: Debut 1/6/88
Inventor/discoverer of multi-phase
(AC) electricity. 9 Part Yugoslavian
mini-series w/English subtitles.
291. NIKOLA TESLA: concl. 3/9/88
INVENTION: Serbian/American
inventor NIKOLA TESLA. 12/6/94
WORLD OF WONDER. Tesla 1/16/96