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Habermann

Habermann (2011)

  • 40% of critics liked it
    (5 reviews)

  • 74% of users liked it
    (85 ratings)

1938, a small village in Sudetenland. The saw mill owner Habermann is the biggest employer in his village and married to Jana, a young and beautiful Czech woman, who is half Jewish. Although Habermann is not interested in politics or ideology, he and his family will be steamrolled by the insanity of… More

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Unrated,
Directed By
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Written By
Wolfgang Shimmer
Genres
Art House & International, Drama
In Theaters
Aug 5, 2011 Limited
Corinth Films

Critic Reviews

  • John Anderson, Variety

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

  • 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.

  • Nick Schager, Time Out New York

    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.

  • Mark Holcomb, Village Voice

    A World War II melodrama with a hook, Habermann does a credible job of personalizing a period of the war largely unknown outside the Czech Republic.

  • Jesse Cataldo, Slant Magazine

    A portrait of a town that never feels completely real, devoid of normality or everyday activity, a depiction which undercuts the eventual emotional escalation.

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