Fatherland (2026)
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- Synopsis:
- Explores Thomas Mann's (Hanns Zischler)'s post-war German life, his family's stand against Nazi rule and their journey into exile.
- Actors:
- Sandra Hüller, Hanns Zischler, August Diehl, Devid Striesow, Anna Madeley, David Menkin, Joachim Meyerhoff, Enno Trebs, Theo Trebs, Waldemar Kobus, Daniel Wagner, Fritzi Haberlandt, Milan Peschel, Joanna Kulig, Christophe Falconnet, David L. Price, Bernd Moss, Lisa Natalie Arnold, Andrzej Klak, Claudia Geisler-Bading
- Directors:
- Pawel Pawlikowski
- Producers:
- Edward Berger, Lorenzo Gangarossa, Mario Gianani, Lorenzo Mieli, Ewa Puszczynska, Dimitri Rassam, Jeanne Tremsal
- Voiced By:
- Louis Brian Reyes Zaun, Benedikt Braun, Adam Trzpil, Joshua Skjold, Borys Halunou, Siarhei Dolhushau
- Writers:
- Pawel Pawlikowski, Hendrik Handloegten
- Aka:
- Vaterland
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Documentary, Drama, Special Interest
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Reviews (1) of Fatherland
The Slow Road Home - Fatherland review by griggs
Sandra Hüller gives this thoughtful film a magnetic centre. I couldn't take my eyes off her.
She plays Erika Mann, chauffeuring her famous father Thomas around postwar Germany while her brother Klaus unravels on the phone from Cannes. Erika ends up as the family's shock absorber. August Diehl gives Klaus a raw, jittery despair, and Hanns Zischler plays Thomas as a Mann of very few words, which is a bold look for a Nobel laureate.
The black-and-white photography is gorgeous. Bombed streets and lined faces look carved from the same grey stone. Every ruined city they pass seems to echo some wreckage of their own, which gives each lofty speech about art and home a sting.
Near the end, father and daughter share a scene with barely a word between them. After all those speeches, their silence hit me hardest.
It's a measured film, and I left the cinema a bit underwhelmed. Since then, though, I keep thinking about it. Fatherland took its time to settle, and it's been opening up ever since.