Homecoming (1928 film)

Homecoming
Directed by	Joe May
Produced by	Erich Pommer
Written by	Joe May; Fritz Wendhausen;
Based on	Leonhard Frank (novel)
Starring	Lars Hanson; Dita Parlo; Gustav Fröhlich;
Music by	Willy Schmidt-Gentner; Karl Hajos;
Cinematography	Konstantin Irmen-Tschet; Günther Rittau;
Edited by	Joe May
Production; company	UFA
Distributed by	UFA
Release date	29 August 1928
Running time	120 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	Silent; German intertitles;

Homecoming (German: Heimkehr) is a 1928 German silent war drama film directed by Joe May and starring Lars Hanson, Dita Parlo and Gustav Fröhlich..

It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin and on location in Hamburg. The film's sets were designed by the art director Arthur Schwarz.

Plot

Richard and Karl are German prisoners of war in Siberia. Since escape is almost impossible, they are unguarded and live an almost idyllic existence running a ferry. Richard misses his wife Anna greatly; he literally counts the days since he's seen her and tells Karl about her and their home in detail. When he decides to escape, Karl comes with him. While crossing a desert Richard collapses. He asks Karl to go on without him, but Karl refuses to leave his friend and carries him. But when Karl leaves to get water, Richard is recaptured and sent to work in a lead mine.

Karl makes it back to Hamburg, where he meets Anna and occupies a spare room in her flat. Soon friendship deepens, and both he and Anna have guilt feelings about their attraction.

Meanwhile, the war ends, and Richard returns just in time to witness Karl and Anna's first kiss. After his initial anger, Richard goes to Anna's bed. She cries; he takes her in his arms; she returns his embrace; but when he begins to make love to her, she refuses his advances. Richard returns to the room where Karl pretends to be asleep. He takes a pistol and prepares to kill Karl; but as he holds the gun to Karl's head, he recalls his friend's carrying him across the desert and puts the pistol away.

Realizing that "Nobody's to blame," Richard leaves Karl and Anna to each other and returns to his other great passion, life at sea on one of the great freighters that sail from Hamburg.

Cast

Bibliography

Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.

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External links

Homecoming on IMDb

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