Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.
FATHERLAND
Synopsis
At the height of the Cold War, the writer Thomas Mann and his daughter—actress, writer, and rally driver—Erika embark on a road trip in a black Buick cruiser across a divided Germany in ruins, traveling from the Allied-occupied city of Frankfurt to Soviet-controlled Weimar.
Synopsis
At the height of the Cold War, the writer Thomas Mann and his daughter—actress, writer, and rally driver—Erika embark on a road trip in a black Buick cruiser across a divided Germany in ruins, traveling from the Allied-occupied city of Frankfurt to Soviet-controlled Weimar.
Our take
Examining a brief chapter in the life of a literary titan, Paweł Pawlikowski returns with a lustrous film whose ideas can barely be contained by its exacting frames. Starring a dazzling Sandra Hüller, Fatherland embarks on a moral odyssey along the ideological fault lines of a nation’s cleft soul.