Title: Gargantuan
Product review: At over 300 dollars this is clearly a minority taste. 'Heimat' is an enormously-long film that is usually shown on television in digestible hour-long chunks. It's best to think of it as a superior soap opera, although it has nothing at all to do with 'Dallas'. There isn't really a plot, as such - the film follows the lives of a group of people living in a twentieth-century (mainly pre-WW2) village in Germany. It's massive in several sense of the word, and has a scope as epic as '2001', but on a human scale. Although it goes on for over half a day, it's generally quite mesmeric. Lots of things happen, but it's all about a slow accumulation of details. I'm sorry if this review seems vague - reviewing this film is like reviewing forty years of history, in three hundred words. There was a sequel of similar quality, released as 'Die Zweit Heimat'. The title means 'homeland'.
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