Perhaps the greatest TV series ever?

Die Zweite Heimat (literally "The Second Heimat"; English title Heimat 2) (subtitled Chronik einer Jugend — Chronicle of a Youth)  is set during the socially turbulent years of the 1960s and depicts how Maria Simon's youngest son Hermann leaves his rural home and makes a new life for himself as a composer in Munich.

Please note that I am also selling the companion box set of the first Heimat series. I will discount £5 if you buy both.

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Hermann is a musical prodigy whose teenage romance in 1955 with 26-year-old soul-mate Klärchen was considered scandalous by his conservative home village. It resulted in her being expelled and coerced to never contact him again. Hermann felt crushed, vowing never to love again and to leave his village forever. He arrives in Munich at age 19, overwhelmed and with no place to stay. He finds a private room available in a month, leaving the deposit with a flamboyant Hungarian woman. His friend Renate, a law student, allows Hermann to sleep on her floor but he is put off by her sexual advances. He finally stays with Clemens, a fellow Hunsrücker who plays jazz drums in Munich's clubs. Hermann is accepted into the music conservatory, where he meets the talented Juan from Chile, whose school application is rejected on the grounds his marimbas are "folklore". Hermann and Juan network within the avant-garde culture surrounding the conservatory, which includes film students, while Hermann takes odd jobs and Juan works as a gymnastics teacher. Both Juan and Hermann have a brief fling with the beautiful cellist Clarissa, who is drawn to those who also fear intimacy. The students are gradually drawn to the Foxhole, a mansion headed by a wealthy art patroness said to be a "collector of artists".

This is the Tartan Video DVD transfer dating from 2005. Exceptional packaging (see images) on this monumental set often described as 'one of Stanley Kubrick's favorites'.

The Image
Originally shot on 35mm film, the transfer is from a restored master. The black and white sequences are sharp with solid black and good to great details. The colour sequences are more soft, lesser detail, but a great colour palette. The differences is most like due to the different stocks of film. Simply a great transfer.

The Sound
The sound is the original 2.0 Dolby Digital mono. It is completely free of noise, dialogue is crystal clear.

The Subtitles
The subtitles are based on a decent translation, but lacks the beautiful German language sentence compositions, reducing tense to simple past tense and present.

While those who understand German can enjoy the great melodic language, and those who don't will understand the meaning of it. As such, it is a good translation.

Box info

46-page booklet.

Disc 1 (bitrate: 4.28 / 16 chapters):

• The Time Of The First Song (1:56:01)
• Two Strange Eyes (1:55:11)
  

Disc 2 (bitrate: 4.58 / 16 chapters):

• Jealousy and Pride (1:55:44)

• Ansgar's Death (1:39:59)

Disc 3 (bitrate: 4.27 / 16 chapters):

• The Game With Freedom (1:59:50)

• Kennedy's Children (1:48:36)

Disc 4 (bitrate: 4.50 / 16 chapters):

• Christmas Wolves (1:49:44)

• The Wedding (2:00:03)

Disc 5 (bitrate: 3.92 / 16 chapters):

• The Eternal Daughter (1:57:49)

• The End of the Future (2:11:09)

Disc 6 (bitrate: 4.14 / 16 chapters):

• Time of Silence (1:57:39)

• A Time of Many Words (1:59:01)

Disc 7 (bitrate: 4.47 / 16 chapters):

• Art Or Life (1:58:46)

Total running time: 25:09:32