Homecoming (Heimkehr) is a 1941 German film based on true events and is one of the most intense Third Reich pictures ever made. Joseph Goebbels awarded it the rare Film der Nation (Film of the Nation) prize when the film opened in Berlin at the Ufa-Palast am Zoo on October 23, 1941. Homecoming was immensely popular with audiences, was critically acclaimed, and ran in Reich cinemas for 15 months. Directed by Gustav Ucicky. Starring Paula Wessely, Peter Petersen, Attila HΓΆrbiger, Ruth Hellberg, and Carl Raddatz.
Spring 1939, in a small town in Poland, German minorities are the victims of ever-increasing hatred and violence. When Poland is invaded, all Germans are rounded up by the Poles and await execution. Their only hope is for the Wehrmacht to rescue them.
