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How to buy die (Zweite) Heimat on DVD?

• You can order the English DVD release of Heimat from Tartan Video in London through the webshops of Play.com (cheapest), Sendit.com, Amazon.co.uk (ship to more countries) and similar shops. DVD Times has a nice picture of the hardback book binding. No news about the English release of Die Zweite Heimat yet.
• You can order the German DVD release of Die Heimat from KinoWelt in Leipzig through Amazon.de. It is scheduled for release in December 2004.
• There is a Dutch DVD release of Heimat 1, 2 and 3 coming from Lumiere in December 2004 or spring 2005. It might also have French subtitles.
• Facets video in the US have the rights for the DVD release of Heimat 1, 2 and 3 and are planning to release it. Nothing is decided yet about when and how.

How to rent die (Zweite) Heimat on DVD?

• Go to the nearest German cultural centre and ask for it. Most Goethe Institutes around the world have or should have a copy on video.
• Ask your local library to get a copy. This is something that Markus Bartelmess did successfully in the Badische Landesbibliothek. Also ask your videostore. Dutch libraries have the DVD in their collection.

How to buy die (Zweite) Heimat on VHS?

• You can buy the VHS edition from Facets if you live in North America (English-subtitled, NTSC). I have also one report of someone who rented the video in a small video rental store in California: Best Video, 2710 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, California 94306.
• You can buy it from Absolute Medien if you live in Europe or another place with the PAL tv-system. It is not subtitled. If you need subtitling on the PAL version, this is no option.
• You can buy the DVD and make a copy to VHS tapes, this is legal and possible with these DVDs. There is no Macrovision or DSS encryption to prevent it.

Some people are looking for old VHS recordings of die (zweite) Heimat because there is no DVD release in their language. For example Portugese. If you have recorded it at the time, please let me know. We could for example scan the subtitles and offer the subtitles as a download from this website. With special software it can then be connected when playing the English or German DVD release.

Music

Raymond wrote: "The music of both Die Heimat and Die Zweite Heimat has been released on CD. You can get the CD-box through Bella Musica: "Die Zweite Heimat - original soundtrack auf 4 CD" Bella Musica BM 003018. With the CD's BM-CD 31.6011 till 31.6014. It will cost 99.2DM plus shipping. Contact Bella Musica Tontrager GmbH, Rheinstrasse 26, D - 77815 Buhl, Baden.

The German Amazon site lists this item (3 disks) as unavailable and the 4 CD box is also unavailable (you can listen to fragments though) but the single Heimat CD is available."

Second hand

If you want to sell or buy (zweite) Heimat related things, you can ask me to announce it here. It will then be found by the search engines.

For sale: Helen in Australia is selling her 4 CD-box mentioned above. Ask her for price or conditions or find her offer on eBay from November 1 to 8 in 2004.

For sale: my PAL-VHS recordings from the BBC with Die Heimat and Die Zweite Heimat. A shopping bag full of about 20 tapes. Included is the Carole Angier documentary 'Return to Heimat'. 30 euro excluding shipping. contact ReindeR Rustema

For sale: a friend's pile of PAL-VHS recordings from Dutch broadcaster VPRO with Die Zweite Heimat (with Dutch subtitles). Included is the three hour VPRO-interview with Reitz 'TV en de Muzen'. See picture. 30 euro shipping excluded. About 6 or 7 kilos, thus 10 euro extra to send it in the Netherlands or 30 abroad. Or pick it up in Amsterdam without shipping costs. Rent it for just 10 euro.

Shopping experiences

Sudan wrote: "the DZH CD's can be bought from a German mail-order company named: JPC http://www.jpc.de/
They have all 3 Volumes of the OST as well as the complete series on 7 VHS. I know, I have them all.
The CD's cost 18,99 EUR each, the Video set costs 149 EUR (quite expensive, but worth it) You can order online and should recieve the package within 2-3 Weeks within Europe, 4-6 Weeks outside of Europe. The Website is in German, English, French and in Nederlands" On 1 July 2004 the price for the 7 Zweite Heimat VHS was 99 euro

In the United States this set is distributed by Sound Solutions, 39 Veronica Ave, PO Box 6150, Sommerset NJ 08875-6150. Or you can order on-line from the at Tarantula Records in the US. The CDs are item number 3008654 and sell for 109DM. From HMV (the only major British store that can order them): £47
Read the review by Alan Andres. The CDs don't contain some of the best music; particularly the music for cello and piano from episode 10 when Reinhardt goes to Venice.

There is another single CD of Die Zweite Heimat on Milan records (#887881 with 73 minutes of music) which was newly recorded after the film was broadcast in Germany. Unfortunately the performances aren't as compelling as the Bella Musica, and Mamangakis appears to have used a synthesizer in some of the new orchestrations. For the Heimat completist however.

Since 1997 the questionnaire below was on this website to enable you to show your interest in a DVD-release. I collected more than 1000 responses. Now there is an English and a German DVD-release, many of you are being served. I keep this questionnaire up for those who want to indicate their wishes for a local DVD-release (Dutch, Finnish, Spanish or whatever) or want to show possible discontent with the features on the current releases. If you send in the survey, you are automatically subscribed to the DVD-newsletter. with news on the DVD-release. So far I have send out these four newsletters, two a year. If you want to unsubscribe, see the Mailman pages for heimat-dvd

When you want to send in the questionnaire, just copy-paste it into a mail message and mailto:reinder@rustema.nl To make things easy for you, you only have to put a cross between the brackets like this [x ] If you want to mess up the form that's fine with me, as long as it's understandable.

Yes, I'm interested in a DVD release of:

[ ] Die Heimat
[ ] Die Zweite Heimat
I'm prepared to pay for Die Heimat (13 hrs)
[ ] less than $40 
[ ] between $40 - $100
[ ] between $100 - $200
I'm prepared to pay for Die Zweite Heimat (25.5 hrs)
[ ] less than $40
[ ] between $40 - $100
[ ] between $100 - $200
[ ] between $200 - $300
I would like to have it subtitled in:
[ ] English
[ ] French
[ ] Italian
[ ] Spanish
[ ] German
[ ] Other... 
On the DVD I would like to see also:
[ ] a 'making of...' documentary
[ ] Edgar Reitz talking on an extra soundtrack
[ ] portraits of the actors
[ ] commentary on the project by the best movie critics, historians and other experts
[ ] testimonials of viewers from around the world on what it meant for them to see it
[ ] a song-cue function to just play the music
[ ] scene by scene viewing (instead of 'chapters')
[ ] text-files with screenplay and musical anotation as printable books or 'e-books' on the disk
[ ] internet features. For example: when you insert the DVD in your computer or a similar internet-device and when you click on an object or person in the image a website opens with information. If it is not clickable, you can suggest a link yourself for the online database with links. 
[ ] Something else...

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