Fatherland

Winning Best Director at Cannes with Fatherland, Pawlikowski picks up where he left off with his award-winning Ida and Cold War, exploring – in his elliptic, distilled style - the themes of identity, family, love and guilt amid the turmoil and confusion of post-war Europe. The film brings together many things while unfolding in graphic images and concentrated scenes, leaving the audience space to feel and imagine.

At the height of the Cold War, Fatherland centers on the relationship between the writer Thomas Mann (Hanns Zischler) and his daughter Erika (Sandra Hüller)—actress, writer and rally driver—as they embark on a road trip in a black Buick cruiser across a Germany in ruins, from U.S. dominated Frankfurt to Soviet controlled Weimar.

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