Lassie Come Home
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| - | + | '''''Lassie Come Home''''' is a 1943 [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] [[Technicolor]] feature film starring [[Roddy McDowall]] and [[Pal (dog actor)|canine actor, Pal]], in a story about the profound bond between Yorkshire boy Joe Carraclough and his [[Rough Collie|rough collie]], [[Lassie]]. | |
| - | '''Heimatfilm''' ([[German language|ger]]. "homeland-film") is the name given to a [[film genre]] that was popular in [[Germany]], [[Switzerland]] and [[Austria]] from the late 40s to the early 70s. They were usually shot in the [[Alps]], the [[Black Forest]] or the [[Lüneburg Heath]] and always involved the outdoors. Heimatfilms were noted for their rural settings, sentimental tone and simplistic morality, and centered around love, friendship, family and non-urban life. Also, the polarity between old and young, tradition and progress, rural and urban life was articulated. The typical [[plotline|plot structure]] involved both a "good" and "bad" guy wanting a girl, conflict ensuing, and the "good" guy ultimately triumphing to win the girl to the happiness of everyone and the children. | + | |
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| - | [[Heimat]] is a German word that can be translated as home, [[homeland]], home soil or fatherland (each having a different emphasis and [[connotation]]). | + | |
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| - | English-language features that could qualify as ''Heimatfilme'' include ''[[Lassie Come Home]]'', ''[[Spencer's Mountain]]'', and ''[[Where the Red Fern Grows]].'' In a broader sense it's possible to view the [[Western (genre)|Western]]-genre as the American counterpart to the german Heimatfilm. | + | |
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| - | The genre originally came to life following the devastation of Germany in World War II, suggesting a whole, romantic world untouched by the hazards of real life (i.e. war damage and subsequent rebuilding); this remained popular from the mid-1940s to the 1960s. | + | |
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| - | The trilogy of films called ''"[[Heimat (film)|Heimat]]"'' by the German director [[Edgar Reitz]] (1984, 1992, and 2004) are partly an ironic reference to this type of sentimental film. | + | |
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Lassie Come Home is a 1943 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Technicolor feature film starring Roddy McDowall and canine actor, Pal, in a story about the profound bond between Yorkshire boy Joe Carraclough and his rough collie, Lassie.
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