Paul…actors.
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Heimat: A Chronicle of Germany
Hungerhill — 17 years ago(October 11, 2008 12:56 PM)
The Paul we see coming back to the village after so many years bears no resemblance whatsoever to the Paul that walked out.The same problem arose in 'Roots' in the seventies when the actors playing Kunte Kinte looked nothing like each other.It does nothing for the feeling of continuity.
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Kokapetl — 11 years ago(February 03, 2015 05:32 PM)
I'm not sure if that is the point, as almost every time they got a new actor to play someone they were totally different in looks and in vibe (and often in height, too) to the people who'd played them before the two Paulines were nothing alike, adult Anton was nothing like his teenage or early 20s self, Hermann was completely different every time you saw him, etc. It seems to me that casting someone similar to the actor who'd already played a character just wasn't at all important to the casting directors.
I also agree with ianevs79 who said he looked too old he looked a lot older than his contemporaries such as Eduard, Maria, Glasisch, Pauline, etc. who were all their old selves (except Pauline, but she'd been playing Pauline since Pauline was in her 30s) just with aging makeup on. It didn't matter so much after episode 8 when everyone was made to look a lot older, but when he first returned in 1947 he looked a good ten years older than everyone else his age.
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