DVD, Digital Release: Habermann

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Laurence
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Digital, DVD Release Date: Dec. 8, 2020
Price: DVD $19.99
Studio: Corinth Films

Based on true events, the 2010 post-WWII drama Habermann, from the great Czech director Juraj Herz (The Cremator), is the first film to dramatize the brutal expulsion of 3 million Germans from Czechoslovakia.

The follows the life of August Habermann (Mark Waschke, Generation War), a well-respected, wealthy German sawmill owner living in the Czech Sudentenland. Married to the young, beautiful Czech, Jana (Hanna Herzsprung), their comfortable lives undergo increased tension when the region is annexed by Nazi Germany in 1938. And though he’s neither interested in politics nor ideology, for Habermann, the annexation signals the first of many encounters with a ruthless SS officer (Ben Becker).

Things begins to grow ugly over the years, with townspeople and soldiers alike being killed. Finally, after 7 years of Nazi occupation, the Czechs yearns for vengeance and blame all Germans for the daily terrors and indignities they faced and set out to expel them from the region. Those who chose to remain could face deadly consequences, and Habermann’s life is especially in danger since many think he is responsible for the local horrors that have been thrust on them.

Presented in German with English subtitles, the German-Czechoslovakian historical drama was nominated for six Czech Lions, including Best Film.

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Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.