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Fatherland

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Original title

Fatherlandaka

AKA

1949

Year

2026

Running time

82 min.

Country

Poland

Director

Pawel Pawlikowski

Screenwriter

Pawel Pawlikowski, Henk Handloegten

Cast

Music

Marcin Masecki

Cinematography

Lukasz Zal

Producer

Co-production Poland-Germany-Italy-France;

Extreme Emotions, Our Films, Nine Hours, Chapter 2, MUBI, Apocalypso Pictures, arte France Cinéma, Pathé, Arte France. Distributor: MUBI

Genre

Drama | Biography. Cold War. 1940s. Literature. Road Movie. Paternity

Synopsis

FATHERLAND centres on the relationship between the Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika, actress, writer and rally driver. In the summer of 1949, at the height of the Cold War, father and daughter embark on a challenging and emotional road trip in a black Buick taking them across a Germany in ruins – from US dominated Frankfurt to Soviet controlled Weimar. Returning home after sixteen years of exile in the US, Thomas Mann has to face not only a divided fatherland, but also deep fracture within his own family.

Awards: 2026: Cannes Film Festival: Award for Best Director. 2 nominations

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