Haymo ( Erich Auer ) is the official "jäger" ( forest ranger ) for the monastery at Berchtesgaden. One day while patrolling the ...

Somewhere I read that if you watch one Heimatfilm you've seen them all. That is a bit of a stretch, but it is true that after seeing t...

Johanna Spyri's beloved children's novel "Heidi" ( 1881 ) was first brought to film in 1937 with Shirley Temple in the s...

Some films have a way of drawing you into the story within the first ten minutes. Perhaps it is a practice that screenwriters learned from...

If you ever read the credits to Walt Disney's The Parent Trap ( 1961 )  you would have noticed that the film was based upon a book by...

Who wants to get a new housekeeper when you can have a new mother?  Widower Hans Neumeister and his four children have just lost their mo...

Every Christmas season for the past ten years, ABC has been airing The Sound of Music ( 1965 ) which has sparked a new holiday-viewing tr...

When my sister and I first started watching some of the German/Austrian "Heimatfilms" we were unfamiliar with any of the main ...

This is such a sweet film. Most of the Deutsche Heimatfilms are sweet as apple strudel, but Der Schönste Tag Meines Lebens is especiall...

"Up There Where the Alps Glow"....a rough translation of the title of this 1956 German production starring Vienna-born Albert Ru...

This past month my sister and I have been exploring German films of the 1950s, and in doing so we came across a popular genre that we were...