Habermann

2010

1h 44m

Drama

Romance

War

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33%

6 Reviews

Tomatometer

77%

100+ Ratings

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A mill owner living in the Sudetenland has his life changed drastically as Europe heats up in 1938.

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A story about german mill owner Habermann who lives and works with Czech people, he even marry jewish woman. It also shows that not every German was bad and that the departure of Germans after the war was sometimes unrighteous. Good to see the war in a different point of view.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/29/23

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Juraj Herz's attempt at depicting the expulsion of Germans from Sudetenland is indeed a bold move and should find its way to grammar schools. As it displays German and Czech kins in perfectly contemporary outfits indulging in some of the finest examples of post-war misbehaviour, the director had incorporated as many explanatory comments into dialogues as possible, presumably for the sake of the international audience. That made the plot lucid enough for the Chinese and almost indigestible for anyone remotely familiar with the 2WW. (With due respect to all Chinese - why does a Czech ranger share his first ever musings about Hitler to his best German buddy ONLY at the height of Anschluss? Several years after the crisis began??) Having said that, the piece may not be as far-out as, say, Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

01/26/23

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"Occupants come and go. Czechs stay." A depiction of difficult WWII-times and unjustice done to both Czechs and Germans, good acting (including Karel Roden), a lot of emotions. Both too rushed for me, some illogical scenes and characters somewhat flat and predictable.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/05/23

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Strong characters, great acting, story from real life. Definitelly the best Czech movie this year.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

01/22/23

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Juraj Herz

Director

Mark Waschke

August Habermann

Karel Roden

Karel Brezina

Ben Becker

Sturmbannführer Kurt Koslowski

Hannah Herzsprung

Jana Habermann

Radek Holub

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John Anderson

Variety

More soap opera than high drama, the film is confused and confusing, and tedious to boot.

Aug 8, 2011

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Mike Hale

New York Times

As directed by the Czech veteran Juraj Herz in prestige-television style, the bulk of the film is a classically proportioned and tasteful wartime soap opera.

Rated: 2.5/5

Aug 4, 2011

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Nick Schager

Time Out

Compensates for its under-occupation familiarity with poignant performances, confident direction and an impressively sober sense of how the era's tragedy kept expanding exponentially.

Rated: 3/5

Aug 2, 2011

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Roger Moore

Movie Nation

A movie about a WWII fence-sitter become a frustrating exercise in fence-sitting itself.

Rated: 2/4

Jan 2, 2021

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Synopsis

A mill owner living in the Sudetenland has his life changed drastically as Europe heats up in 1938.

Director: Juraj Herz
Producer: Thomas Becker, Jörg Westerkamp, Klaus Kähler
Screenwriter: Wolfgang Limmer, Juraj Herz, Jan Drbohlav, Carina Landau
Production Co: Art Oko Film, Entertainment Value Associates , KN Filmcompany
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Original Language: German
Release Date (Streaming): Jul 10, 2017
Runtime: 1h 44m

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