Homecoming

Homecoming

90 mins | Drama, History, TV Movie | May 2, 2012

August Staudenmeyer returns after thirty years absence as a wealthy man in his hometown Gerbersau. First, the successful businessman is received with open arms. But when he stands up for the outlawed widow Katharina Entriss, he gets sidelined. August realizes that the narrow-mindedness of the Gerbersauer has by no means changed. Richer for an experience and a love, he leaves home a second time.

Homecoming

90 mins | Drama, History, TV Movie | May 2, 2012

Homecoming
August Staudenmeyer returns after thirty years absence as a wealthy man in his hometown Gerbersau. First, the successful businessman is received with open arms. But when he stands up for the outlawed widow Katharina Entriss, he gets sidelined. August realizes that the narrow-mindedness of the Gerbersauer has by no means changed. Richer for an experience and a love, he leaves home a second time.
IMDb rating 6.2
Producers Bayerischer Rundfunk, ARD, ARD/Degeto Film, Bavaria Fernsehproduktion
Original title Die Heimkehr
Directors Jo Baier
Writers Hermann Hesse, Jo Baier

Cast

August Zirner

as August Staudenmeyer

Heike Makatsch

as Katarina Endriss

Herbert Knaup

as Bürgermeister

Margarita Broich

as Leonore

Oliver Stokowski

as Hermann Mohrle

Robert Spitz

as Lukas Pfrommer

Annette Paulmann

as Berta

Vera Lippisch

as Frau Dreiss

Gottfried Breitfuß

as Oberamtsarzt Weil

Frank Tafelmaier

as Fuhrknecht

Katja Bürkle

as Amalie Pfrommer

Eckart Fritz

as Fotograf

Manfred Fähndrich

as Oberamtmann Beutele

Juliane Heß

as Mädchen

Siegfried Rank

as Schuldirektor Hegele

Günther Schmidt

as Fabrikant Trefz

Kurt Steiner

as Wirt